We set off on our bikes down the green Devon lanes, panniers empty, for a visit to our local plant nursery. I saw so many bumble bees on the flowers in the hedges that today they will be the main feature.

Not only bees squeezing up inside the Foxgloves but also avoiding or cheating on the pollination route and drilling a hole directly to the nectar with their proboscis. Our return journey, panniers bulging with green leaves, was faster as the thunder rolled and the rain watered us, plants and all.