Visiting A Garden

 Last Thursday I took mum for a morning out to see a local garden that houses the National Collection of Michaelmas Daises. I've always been meaning to have a look round so it was really love to take mum. 

Now although I love flowers and plants there was a few things that I really loved in this garden, things that stuck out to me. 

The first was this beautiful potting shed. The colour of it, the rusty tin roof, it just looks so "right" in the garden, I love it! 

Last Beekeeping Lesson - Malvern And Upton Beepkeepers

 So last Thursday (the 5th) was the final beekeeping lesson for beginners at our club this year. 

It's been a really fun year when it comes to learning about beekeeping and I feel like I've landed on my feet with this club, so I was a little sad to see the season finish. 

Carved Vegetable Fridge Magnets

With our daughter's diabetes, we like to keep really organised. The main thing we have to keep on top on is the insulin. We have to keep three sorts in stock, all in date, even though we're only really using one regularly. 

I decided that rather than having these out of sight, out of mind, we should have a reminder in the form or a white board with the note written on it. 

Of course this is a bit of a depressing board really...

So I decided to try and make it a bit more interesting. 

On The Cover Again!

On the cover of Woodcarving magazine for the third time! This time with a lovely picture of my boy doing some carving with me. He was pleased to see his picture there. 

This issue of woodcarving magazine I also write the opening letter for the issue (always a fun bit), I got to interview am amazing carver from America called Bob Yorburg, and I carved up some vegetable fridge magnets (more about them in another post).  

Outdoor Tomatoes

Ever since leaving our last house, I've never really grown good tomatoes outside. 

That house had a suntrap garden, with white brick walls I used to grow them up against. They'd often do better there than in the greenhouse (which was a little shaded).

This year I thought I'd have another go outside here, having failed in the past. I planted two types, one Primabella, is a late blight resistant tomato that I you can save the seed from. The other is Crimson Crush, also blight resistant but an F1 (so no seed saving) and also not the most tasty tomato you will ever eat, but still streets above the supermarket ones.