If there's a bustle in your hedgerow

Walked round to friend J's house to get her advice on wedding cake baking/ construction.
I took the scenic route via the meadow alongside the River Alne and through the old Mill.
I haven't seen many butterflies this summer yet but today there were lots of these lovely chocolatey velvety brown ones fluttering among the rather overgrown vegetation .
I think it's a ringlet.

Extra is NOT my scrambled brain cells after trying to follow the news today about our increasingly embarrassing political situation. But it could be.
We must be an international laughing stock.
It's actually the roots of a basil plant in a glass pot.