Ant attack

In the course of this morning's chalk and talk, we discovered that garden ants do not care to cross chalk lines. They march up to them, poke around a bit, then nearly always go into reverse.

Not obviously scented so who knows what it is that is putting them off.

PS: the juniper behind started off really well in this corner, but now suffers from foxes mistaking it for a lamp post, despite it being quite prickly to the touch. We used to protect it with post & wire, but we got a bit fed up with that and so now the juniper has to take its chances.