Ah now this is something I’m very keen to see. Dionysus protecting the grape vines. And if this lot are anything to go by, I’d say he’s doing a grand job…..whoever would want to get themselves into a fight with them!

I’ve again learned something new by doing my diary because I was checking the spelling of Dionysus, which if I’d known he was also called Bacchus I wouldn’t have worried so much because I knew how to spell that! He was the god of wine and later personal delivery, which included such things as ecstasy (so I guess that explains all the naked dancing)and physical or spiritual intoxication.

Here he’s strutting his stuff protecting the beautiful grape vines of the Eden Project, now turning colour to rich reds and gold as even the ‘mediterranean biome’ starts to reflect autumn. The scul;pture was created by Tim Shaw

We’ve spent a glorious day at Eden, sharing a bit of the magic that Tim Smit and his friends created in a wilderness of an abandoned china clay pit here in Cornwall. Even before ever setting foot in the place, I knew it’d be fantastic because Tim was the person who found and restored Heligan to its former glory. We first came here about four years ago, I suppose – certainly before starting to write this diary and loved it then.

Today, we decided that Patti had to experience a little magic too so here we are.

It was tough to choose a pic because I took so many shots that I really like today – I may even, for the first time in ages, do a non-PotD gallery of some of the other shots.

How do you describe Eden so that someone who’s never heard of it can understand? Well, it’s like cuckoo spit on a grand scale (for anyone who doesn’t know what cuckoo spit is, it’s an insect’s larvae, which is a milky white pile of bubbles. Eden has two gigantic piles of bubbles sprouting out of the hill, one of which is the temperate zone, where this photo was taken and the other is the tropical zone, where I only managed to get ten or twelve shots because most of my time in there was spent with my camera lens fogged up from the heat and moisture!

These two biomes are stuffed full of plants and they are surrounded by gorgeous gardens too. The team use the place to bring home a message about waste and over-production – even the loos have rainwater for flushing some of the time. Cool!

Anyway, it was a joy to be there and I know that we’ll be enjoying it there again soon because we’re going back very soon with my folks who were promised a visit when they are next down. Good job they sell ‘season tickets’ to locals!!!

Two years ago, I was telling a tale of a shark in a roof! Last year, a lost and found marble became my subject.