Author: Alan Cole

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JOGLE Day Minus 2 – Wild Swimming in Loch Lomond

Holiday time!!! if you can call cycling the length of Britain from John O’Groats to Lands End a ‘holiday’.. Or driving it for that matter as that’s what Anna will be doing acting as support crew along with Morgan. Before we could do that though we had the small matter of driving North to John...

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JOGLE Tracking Technology

As you should know by now we are about to embark on a charity cycle ride from John O’Groats to Lands End in aid of JDRF (Click here to support the charity and sponsor our ride). We are just about ready to start heading up to John O’Groats in order to start the ride on...

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Taking the Basic Beekeeping Assessment

Our beekeeping adventures continue and we have now taken the WBKA Basic Beekeeping Assessment. There is no obligation for beekeepers to do such things but as beekeeping has always been a hobby for us rather than a money-making or even honey-making scheme, this just seemed like another aspect to the hobby. Study Groups For us,...

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JOGLE Toes

My toes are ready for Jogle – now to work on the rest of my body which is well and truly overweight at the moment. It’s been a while since I’ve been this fat!

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Honey Bee Photo

For some reason, depsite the flowers on offer, our honey bees are rarley seen foraging in our garden. It’s nice when we do see them though and a good opportunity to snap them in action. I quite like this shot of one of them feeding on some Verbena.

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Snorkelling in Borth

We’re certainly making the most of the Summer Holidays. It may only be the first day but with gorgeous weather there’s just so much to do. If only we could have some proper time off at home to fit it all in. Morgan and I have been busy today though. After our Big Butterfly Count...

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Big Butterfly Count

Morgan and I have just taken part in the Big Butterfly Count. It was a gorgeous day for it, 20ºC and sunny with butterflies and other flying bugs all over the place. It was hard to keep up with them all, but we counted 16 Meadow Browns, 3 Small Tortoisehsell’s and a Small White. It was easy to...

Honey Bee Feeding 1

Summer Garden

Shame a few more flowers weren’t out for our garden party last weekend, but now that the sun is out and summer is here, the garden seems to have entered a pink and purple mode along with LOADS of Marguerites along the fence. It’s looking nice out there today.

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JOGLE Planning

Phew, the JOGLE planning continues. I’d already made route plans, although a few have been amended slightly so that we can finish at certain places for photo shoots and there is the odd detour just to avoid dual carriageways and larger roads. The current routes are Day 1: John O’Groats to Inverness – 118 miles http://www.strava.com/routes/443052...