John, my engineer, and I had an early start on Thursday - we arrived at the showground at half past 5, so that we could get BBC Radio Merseyside on air at 6.
Claire 'Minty' Minter did her travel reports from the flower show for Tony Snell's Breakfast programme, as well as chatting to anyone else she could find at that time in the morning - it felt like we were the only people about but she did manage to track down one or two stalwarts, including Show Manager, Kris Hulewicz. Later, we were joined by BBC Radio Lancashire's, John 'Gilly' Gilmore. Gilly was on air all afternoon and boy, was it hot! Luckily for Gilly, he'd brought his producer, Sue Hendey, who ensured he was covered in Factor 50 and ha d plenty of water. However, there's not much shade and they were both wilting by 4 o'clock. So, if Minty's early starts and Gilly's sunstroke haven't put you off and you think you can give Wogan a run for his money, get yourself a nickname... 
Purple Flower
Butterflies drinking water in wet sand next to a small jungle river. My lucky day - but I had more than one such encounter! During dry season the jungle leaves have little or no water to drink. Hence butterflies do what humans do when thirsty, they go - or fly - to the next "butterfly pub". Way up in the mountains - a midst jungle - was a small crystal clear jungle river. This place with wet sand about 1 meter away from the water. A few dozen butterflies always flying around this small spot and about a dozen at a time sitting down for a short while to take a few zips of water out of the wet sand.
During rainy season it may be far more difficult to find such crowds of butterflies on a single spot. During rainy season raindrops can easily be found all across the jungle vegetation.
See my earlier photos if you love to learn a little about butterfly life cycle or see some butterfly wallpaper from tropical islands or enjoy my Butterfly eCard collection.
In album Kingdom of Cambodia: Photos Cambodia scenery, eCards Cambodia nature
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