CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

I found this extremely hairy caterpillar this afternoon when I was picking raspberries. My thanks to Skev , who identified it as a buff ...

I started digging the vegetable garden this afternoon but didn't get very far because I found this fine specimen of the centipede ...

Eggleston, the last of the agricultural shows in my part of the Northern Pennines, is the subject of today's Guardian Country Diary ...