Beginner

I do hope that the real flower experts in the Blipworld are ignoring my struggles to come to terms with the most common of wildflowers. I am beginning to be quite concerned about my ignorance in this area. However, I will continue with the challenge, bear all the scorn, and console myself that perhaps my expertise lies in other areas.
 
So, this is certainly not a rare orchid, I think it is a Vetch and a common one at that (maybe Bush Vetch). I can’t make a closer identification than that, despite the books I now have by my side – for which advice much thanks – especially to StuartDB whose comment made me delve into our book shelves and find the Readers Digest Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of Britain (1981). A long forgotten book that is really rather good. My kind of book, as it uses words I can understand and tells of the history of the names and uses of the flower in the past.
 
So a common wildflower, but this is the first time I have really looked at such a flower and wondered at it. Then I became just as interested in the bee that was visiting, and watched as it flew from flower to flower.  I wonder whether it knew it was on a common flower, not a rare one! Perhaps I should have told it.
 
Onto more familiar territory
Those who are interested in such things may have wondered why I have not mentioned the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction, as I have been prone to do at this time of year. There are reasons. Sadly, I will not make it to the Readings Evening tomorrow, but my daughters are going, and I will give my own comments on the short list in tomorrow's blip. The winner will be announced on Wednesday.