Cheerful Garden
Just a few photos of some garden colour to cheer things up. Oh, and a silly cat!!
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Pottery Creations
Our pottery lessons continue and are quite good fun. We may never become experts, but that’s not important. The process is quite time-consuming, partly because we attend just once a week. Additionally, there are drying times between each stage and two firing processes for each piece too. Yesterday, we finally brought home our first completed...
Making Increase
I thought I was doing quite well with the bees this year. There was an early swarm or possibly a supersedure in the hive by the bedroom at the beginning of April. This was actually a fairly good thing as the hive re-queened and the queen was laying last time I looked. All good there...
Wales Coast Path – Cemaes Head to Gwbert
Coast Path Vital Stats Cemaes Head to Gwbert Distance: 9.67 miles Elevation Gain Today: 282m Highest Elevation: 127m Time: 3:03:12 Av. Pace: 18:57 mins/mile Calories: 813 Totals to Date Total Distance: 1075.97 miles Total Time: 212:34:46 Total Elevation Gain: 34856m Total Calories: 104453 Distance to go: 31 miles After a decent night’s sleep I awoke...
Wales Coast Path – Dinas Island to Cemaes Head
Coast Path Vital Stats Dinas Island to Cemaes Head Distance: 17.31 miles Elevation Gain Today: 1031m Highest Elevation: 174m Time: 5:39:05 Av. Pace: 19:36 mins/mile Calories: 2173 Totals to Date Total Distance: 1066.30 miles Total Time: 209:31:34 Total Elevation Gain: 34574m Total Calories: 103640 Distance to go: 41 miles After a decent night at camp,...
Wales Coast Path – Pwll Deri to Dinas Island
Coast Path Vital Stats Pwll Deri to Dinas Island Distance: 20.68 miles Elevation Gain Today: 1149m Highest Elevation: 141m Time: 6:45:12 Av. Pace: 19:36 mins/mile Calories: 2273 Totals to Date Total Distance: 1048.99 miles Total Time: 203:52:29 Total Elevation Gain: 33543m Total Calories: 101467 Distance to go: 58 miles After aborting my Coast Path run...
Out and About with my Parents
My parents picked a nice week to come to Wales. After a few days in glorious sunshine in a caravan at Poppit Sands they arrived on Friday for a quick visit here. The weather continued to impress. Friday evening was spent at Brynrodyn Caravan Site in ‘The View’, overlooking Borth at its best whilst a...
An Early Swarm
After a very cold and wet start to Spring things warmed up enough for me to inspect the bees a couple of times. The first inspection was mainly to put the queen excluders back on and see what was happening. I knew there were bees in both hives but the queen excluders had been removed...
A Golf Course BBQ Chef
Morgan has been keeping in touch all the way from Canada and he seems to be having fun. His job at the ski resort has ended now that the winter is over and he has managed to get a summer job as a BBQ chef at a golf course. Typically, he was living in just...
Not Camping in The Cambrian Mountains
With the weather looking good I decided to head off for a hike and wild camp on Sunday. The plan was to bag a few summits that I hadn’t been to before, find a nice little camp spot miles from anywhere and camp out for the night. I’d then walk up a couple of other...
