Well, here's a hotchpotch of photos:

No, not a family member! I fished him out of a bucket of water in the garden the other night. He's just so beautiful! He's over an inch long (>25cm) and I Googled him and it turns out he's one of our larger insects, a cockchafer beetle. I know that in other countries he would seem small fry, but he's almost in a class of his own here, and I'd never seen one before I fished this one out - thought he was dead. I know it was sad, but I texted Al to bring the camera down the garden to take this!!!

This was taken by my Aunt the other wekkend at my parents house.

Got to go, Sophie awake!