Eggs

A gift from friends multi coloured eggs

She has a collection of Buff Orphintons, Frilly Lace bantams, and hybrids.  What a colourful box full.
Our remaining hen has gone to live with the Wilkinson family ready for our move abroad.  I have loved keeping hens again and when we get back they will be on the to get list quickly.

Self planted roof

Self planted roof at the farm

This lean to has stood for years underneath pine and sycamore trees.  With the current rage for planted eco roofs this is one which nature has created over the years.  Rose Bay willow herb (fireweed) and fox gloves love this shady dry spot.

Honey Harvest

Bees have done well this year. They built up quickly in the Spring and started packing honey in May. I put supers on every fortnight. 

Decapping the frames. 

Spinning off the honey. 

Chunk honey.

61lb of the hive. 

New door to fit frame

The stable door frame managed to be wider at the top and on a twist. I made the mistake of building the door square and then having to cut it to shape.

The wood for this door came from bookshlves I built some 20 years ago.  It has weathered well but I think after being used time and again as bookshelves this is a good end.

Fishing not catching

We all have those days when we wonder why we have even bothered to put the rod together. We arrived when the sky was overcast and a slight ripple was on the water but the water was warm and the fish were just not feeding at all. It is a good job Tree Meadow is such a nice spot so we enjoyed the peace and quiet and practiced casting. 

Bees settled in new hive

Looked in this morning after making a new roof and floor for the swarm. They are covering four national deep frames so around 8000 bees. I put a feeder on and fed them as fog and rain have set in.

Didn't have time to paint the floor. 

On a rainy morning I sealed them in the Hive and drove them up to Mid Wales, predicably the tape did not stick to the hive and after a six hour drive I opened the back of the van to find they had started to escape, thankfully they were all stuck to the outside of the hive so I quickly moved them to the wood.  Not sure what Cornish beees will think of the hills of Mid Wales.

Courgette and nasturtium

Leaving in a few months time so had to put the garden back to lawn, but could not resist planting something. 

The flowers were from last year self seeded after my experiment with square foot gardening.