Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
With Anna at band and Morgan surgically attached to his computer it was just me attending the honey show this year. We didn’t really have anything to exhibit though as we didn’t get any honey this year. I did submit a few photos to the photo competition and of course baked the honey cake. There were loads...
Just a quick update on the bees. If you remember last time I was quite pleased that both hives had re-queened. One seemed to be doing really well. The other wasn’t so great and I found the queen camped out under the mesh floor. I put her back in and hoped that maybe she had been out on...
Just a few up close and personal photos from the garden.
‘Beehaving’? If you remember from my last post about the bees they had been ‘mis-beehaving’. I had performed an artificial split only for the half without the queen to be a little lax in creating a queen cell while the haf with the queen swarmed anyway leaving no queen cell behind. I think my actions have helped...
I probably should have waited for a sunny day to do this, but here are a few panoramic shots of our garden this week. It looks nice like this.
Why do our bees never do what they are supposed to do? I checked in on them today as it was such nice weather. 23ºC, sunny and with just a very light puff of a wind. Having performed an artificial swarm on them last week I wanted to check several things. Hive 1 This is the...
The garden is moving from it’s blue and purple phase into one of oranges and lemons.
Things have been fairly quiet on the beekeeping front so far this year. With only one viable colony at the bottom of the garden there has been little to do. I’ve been inspecting them regularly and they have been gradually building up. Other than that, I’ve had lots of phone calls about bees nests but they have...
The Phormium in the garden is going mad. Loads of massive flower spikes all reaching into the air like little rockets about to explode into flower.
Just some photos from the garden for you to enjoy. It’s lovely out there at the moment. It’s actually going through a bit of a purple phase as usual at this time of years but there are some yellows around too thanks to the Poached Egg Plants and of course the Solunum which is a...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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