Tag: bees
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And then the apples began –
Yesterday just as I was getting into the swing of freezing corn on the cob, with the sweetcorn garden relish bubbling away, and the bread rising on the racks above the stove where a tray of sweetcorn kernels were drying, my neighbour popped over with a very welcome bag of tiny cucumbers for pickling (knowing…
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Good Bees.. Close Up
Only two pictures today… because yesterday nothing topped the honey in Nefertiti’ s House.. and the Brood in Cleopatra’s. These are hand held shots so the images are not brilliantly sharp at this magnification. But … wow. I could not resist. They had a tough spring with all the rain and storms and cool weather. So…
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Cleopatra is enthroned
She had a rather low key arrival on the passenger seat of a rusty white courier van. Rather weirdly (and this happens to me so often I don’t often think about it anymore) I decided to walk the dogs to the end of the drive, which is something I almost never do and the rust…
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New babies in the loft!
(I have it on Good Authority!) Now I know what all the squawking was about the night before last. I tried to tell you. Says Tui. Two tiny tiny kittens. As long as my thumb. I heard their mewling after the milking yesterday morning and look what I found tucked away behind a bale of…
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Sometimes piggies are not pretty but bees always are …
At last the farmy is looking springy. I even mowed the lawns yesterday. Gardened for hours wearing a heat wrap to protect my back. And look at our new header, it says it all. Charlotte’s shape is slowly changing. I told her to open her eyes for this picture or it would look like she…
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