The Valerie fish plant has been visited the last few days by a small black bee the same as last year. I think its Anthophoba plumipes. The female is mainly black and the male is brown. 
The grape hyacinth plants are spreading across our garden again this year. Up until now I have found these plants a bit of a pain. Yesterday, the first time ever I discovered that they visited by insects and will view them in a different light from now on. Several tiny little bees (not sure of species yet) were busy visiting the tiny little bell flowers.
Later during the day I noticed a bee-fly hovering around the rockery. This I took the picture below while it was resting.
Our front (yellow) wall catches the last of the sun and is a nice little heat trap. 
This attracted three bumble bees, several hoverflies and even a bee-fly sunning themselves I the warm evening sun. 
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