Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
This moth trapping malarky is like Christmas morning every day. I wake up early before everyone else, get the trap in from the garden and then have to wait around for Morgan to get up before I can open it and see what we have. At the moment there seems to be something new in...
There wasn’t very much exciting in the moth trap last night, so here are a few more photos of the Eyed Hawkmoth from yesterday just to show what a beast he was with his horns and mohawk!
And here’s another pretty impressive moth I missed from this morning.
With rain forecast for later in the night I wasn’t sure whether to put the moth trap out, but in the end decided to risk it. It was fine in the end as I was up at 4am so able to get the trap in before it started raining properly. There was a nice selection...
I’ve just had a stroll around the garden. Everything is coming along nicely and there are quite a few new flowers out today as well, so I took some snaps of them with my little compact camera.
I seem to have been out of sync with the wind lately. It’s been promising much all week with some almost there NE’s in the morning and then plenty of wind around school run time only for it to drop as soon as I had chance to get on the water. I’d tried to get...
I don’t know if it’s just that I’m noticing them more this year but I’ve just found another caterpillar crawling across the path. This one looks like the larvae of a Drinker Moth to me.
I haven’t done any long bike rides for years. In fact we’re talking 20 years plus since I did anything over about 35 miles. Monday was a gorgeous day, warm, dry and sunny. I was on top of work (or didn’t have much on to be more precise) so set off on a nice little...
Amazon.co.uk Widgets Continuing my research and plans to start beekeeping, I attended a meeting of the Aberystwyth & District Beekeepers Association on Sunday. It was a gorgeous day for it, hot sunny and still. We met at a members house where she has a number of beehives – probably abut 15 , plus chickens, geese,...
I’ve just found a little caterpillar on the honeysuckle, looking for all the world like a little twig. Perfect camouflage, so much so that he almost got pruned along with the other dead twigs. Having looked through some books, it looks most likely to be the caterpillar of an Engrailed Moth.
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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