Spring

Wow a little warm sunshine, and out come the honeybees, bumbles and wasps.   Love spring

Another hemisphere

With much planning I'm here in New Zealand looking at life. Main suprise i guess is the lack of solar pannels and as yet I've seen no wind turbines.
Im staying with with a school friend and his family who are trying very hard with a more scientific approach.  Solar covers his roofcwith each tech devise linked so as to monitor it.  The biggest investment arrives in a couple of weeks; an electric Nissan leaf car not a hybrid . with charging stations spreading he believes it is the way forward. Add to that the ability to use it as a battery pack for the house.

At last

Last week was a milestone. The phonecall came saying i had reached the top of the allotment list after 7 years. So went to view a very large derelict plot which i must say needs alot of work.  With three sheds and a greenhouse it looks like heaven to me, i can even keep a few chicken.  At last my greener life steps closer.

At last.

Finally after nearly 7 years on the allotment waiting list i get to visit one as I'm now top if the list, really just want to get on with the next stage of my greener life. All change here we go.

Its a new year

Well here we are, a new year , time to turn to a blank page. It was a real challenge last year personal stuff got in the way of life . plus points were actually got my beehives up and running. This year, time to enjoy life more.
   
HAPPY NEW YEAR !

Warmed

OK so the woodburner has been on and the honey has now gone through a couple of sieves, so far I have about 3lb of the golden stuff. So to recap. The heat was free as I used collected wood from the local woodland and the honey was from my own bees. I'm beginning to get there.

Too chill

Today was meant to be a hunting day but weather was against us ,so decided to extract the honey from my first frames. Problem is my house is a little cool so the honey is crystallised, so now I've got to let it warm a little so as I can spin it out. Never mind the bits I tried tasted great.