Cicada.

They are getting noiser, and this one was sitting on the lower rail of the deck today.
We had problems with the drains today, but M arrived and knew what to do, so that got fixed.
My daughter rang from Australia....... she is wanting me to go to Scotland next year with her. I can see a lot of phone calls coming up, while she works on her mother to go with her. The big draw card, would be going in April, when hopefully I would get to see some Puffins, and even better, get some photos of them.