Growing

With all these posts about candlesticks this blog is starting to look like Mr Stephenson's scribbles.

The sun came out yesterday in the typical way we have here in the UK at the moment. One minute it is pissing down with rain and shivery cold, the next it's far too hot and sunny to stay out too long unless you want to be burnt to a crisp.

Anyway it did give me an excuse to stroll around the plot, pottering about (too hot for 'hard landscaping') and take some snaps.

I'm really gonna need those zucchini recipes Lisa...

...ripening nicely...

...lovely pear (Oooo Matron!)...

...the blackbirds have kindly left me 'one' cherry...

The chicks are doing fine and growing into their teenager phase - scrawny, gangly and scruffy. I really need to sort them a new coop but I'm determined to design and build my own again for them. The last one I bought is, frankly, shit, and too small for three birds let alone the eight birds advertised in my opinion.

Penny the hen and the 'Cockerel With No Name'...

John over at Going Gently wanted some pics of my clover patches...

Jacques literally 'in clover'...

...and the bees love it!

I ended up spending most of the morning making furniture in my little workshop but had to stop when I started to melt in the heat. So I went off to the plot to see G and get started with the bees. Have a gander at bees make honey to see how I got on (or not).

Bzzzzzzz.