Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Now, I may be a bit of an Apple fan boy, but when someone offers me an alternative toy to play with I’m not going to say no. Yesterday, Alan from Bridging the Rural Divide popped around with a lovely looking Samsung Galaxy S2 smart phone. It has the ‘everytrail’ loaded onto it and they...
Saturday proved to be a perfect day for beekeeping. Light winds, sunshine and temperatures around 18ºC. We were due to make hive inspections of all of the hives in our apiary and had a bit of re-homing to do on one colony. Pendam – Nuc Box This Nuc box contains an artificial swarm from the...
Our hard work on the garden is beginning to pay off. As well as looking nice out there, we’ve already had some garden produce. As well as the strawberries we’ve had a few raspberries with plenty more on the way. The blackcurrants and red currants seem to have been striped by the birds, but we’re...
We made our weekly hive inspections on Wednesday afternoon and there was some progress. The bees are still acting a little strangely though. Both the colony in the Clettwr hive and the colony in the triple nuc box (a caught swarm from Clettwr) are very active. They are up and busy from first light until...
More photos from the garden and a splash of gold thanks to the French Marigolds
You don’t get nicer mornings than this. Clear blue skies, no wind and not too hot. Oh, and a deserted beach backed by the Cambrian Mountains – Not a bad place to live.
It’s another gorgeous day here, clear blue skies, a light breeze and currently 19ºC. Yesterday it reached 24.5ºC, which although it felt hot wasn’t the hottest day of the year so far as we hit 25.3ºC in June 3rd. It’s a shame we have to work on a day like this, but I have just...
Some good news on the bee front at last. The first of our colonies to swarm was the one from the hive we have called Leri. We lost the swarm so the queen from this hive disappeared over the horizon along with half the colony, leaving us with depleted numbers in the hive, no queen...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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