Bee's

I am lucky enough t live by two parks. One is just at the end of my street and is perfect for walking the hound before work, the other is quite a bit grander and larger but is still only a five minute walk away. The larger also has, hidden away, an apiary (that's a load of bee hive to you and me!)

Last year when walking the dog in the bigun I noticed that ne of the hives had fallen over. There is a sign with the Apiary Managers number on, so I called him to let him know. This led to him doing a bit of a sales job on me, trying to persuade me to join in. I have to say I was not immediately up for it but the thought of keeping my own bees has niggled away at me over the year.

So that is basically how I found myself all kitted up like a member of the klu klux klan in the park last Saturday.

Plenty Produce

The allotments really keeping us well fed at the moment. We have had loads of marrows, courgettes, chard and beans. There are some very very tasty pumpkins coming up too. We had our first one roasted with a drizzle of olive oil and some rosemary from the garden.

We are all pretty sick of marrow though. I have been making picalli with them as I usually do with runner gluts. My picalli recipe is in Septembers Kitchen Garden magazine along with some snaps of the garden at home. I always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine when I was a kid but I have to admit K.G was probably not my first choice! (I'm still very chuffed though)

Now I have a fixed lap top and found the camera thingy I shall get a few of my glut recipes on as I have been very busy in the kitchen pickling, brewing, jamming and generally finding 1001 things to do with chard!

Chickens!!!!

Introducing the girls!

Three light Sussex bantam hens. They are fab and very easy to look after. I can't wait till they start laying.