Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Our second Nuc of bees arrived on Saturday evening. This time Jim brought them around and transferred them for us before it got dark. He did exactly the same as we did though so it looks as though we got it right first time. We now have two hives in the garden with a new...
After last nights excitement with the arrival of our first bee colony we were keen to see them get off to a good start today. Unfortunately for the bees, Ivor, our local katabatic wind kicked in and it was blowing at 40 knots all day. The bees did start venturing out at about 10 am...
Well, that wasn’t quite what we were expecting to do with our first nuc of bees, but when we collected them from Bill he seemed pretty insistent that we didn’t leave them in the nuc box for too long. He said they were packed in pretty tightly and needed to get out as soon as...
First up, it’s the Dyfi Enduro on Sunday. I’ve known about this for months, but that doesn’t mean that me or my bike is ready for it. However, I can’t get out of it now, I’ll just have to do the best I can and aim to enjoy it. It won’t be helped by the...
It seems like ages since we’ve had any rain. Although, I’ve just checked through the historic data on our Borth Weather Station which is all available online and we last had some rain on April 11th and we had a heavy dew on April 14th so it hasn’t really been that long – Although just...
This gorgeous spring weather, warm temperatures and the profusion of spring flowers and tree blossom seems to have been working wonders on the local honey bee colonies. We’ve yet to get our bees – they should arrive sometime in May, but we were at an Aberystwyth Beekeepers Association meeting on Thursday night and have been...
Like almost everyone in the country, we’ve been enjoying the spring sunshine, sometimes from within our new conservatory which is now finished and is a lovely place to sit and watch the world go by, other times from within the garden itself. We’re not the only ones either, the plants and flowers seem to be...
We’ve had another busy weekend in the garden here. The weather wasn’t great on Saturday but I got lots done. I had mowed the lawn on Friday so I had plenty of time to work on cleaning up a few things following on from the conservatory build. I then created a new flower border along...
We’ve been raising plants from seed this year and most of them are coming on really well, so over the weekend one of the tasks was to pot them all on. The beans and courgettes are quite large and healthy so they were planted on and new seeds sown in their place. The brocolli is...
We haven’t got our bees yet, but already our hives have needed some repairs. We don’t know why but the plywood used for certain parts of them has started delaminating. It was external grade ply, but just wasn’t quite up to the job. Not to worry though, we bought some wood clamps and some glue...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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