You can never have enough...

[popeye333]

Yes,  the reason I got in touch with a beekeeper ... to protect from stupid humans.  We left them alone on the farm ... the clever bees send out scouts to find a new, suitable home which they presumably disappeared to   Amazing the amount of wax cells they build on wherever they've landed meantime!

I have kept bees, hence my absolute love of the creatures. 

And yes, they don't leave the hive till the new home has been sussed out. We multiplied our single hive three times with our own swarms, by providing new homes they couldn't resist. They are fantastic creatures. Humanity should learn from them. 

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Id run a mile Hunni.. Hate bee's.. yes I know we need them but we dont all have to like them lol

I've prepped the Plums, will cook tomorrow. I do Delia smiths way of making Jam. Cut the fruit up, the juice of a lemon and the equal amount of sugar. Let it sit overnight and it draws all the juice out.

One Must remember to wear gloves if she does it again.. I dont usually cut plums up but I wanted to make sure there were No stones.

Took twice the time to cut the front lawn, soo many stalks and the lead isn't the best. Ill sharpen it before I do the back, which thankfully doesn't have as many stalks but has thicker grass .  It looks like it might be fine till Wednesday so I might only do half tomorrow.

My school friends Daughter is getting married tomorrow, in a  garden.  The Nursery owners daughter.. the only instructions for the bouquets, which the workers are making not the Mother is No Roses.. so My friend doesn't even know what they are making.

Love the blanket Jan.. Im sure it will be treasured.

I use two thirds sugar to one cup of fruit and add an apple if the fruit is low in pectin - along with the lemon. It is a very satisfying process. Unless it's strawberries. I have never had any luck with strawberries. Black currant though, now there's a quick setter...

I got married in my parents Taupo garden, under a late flush of Westerland. It was a lovely day, despite rain in the morning. The local firemen brought a tarp down ready to rig just in case, but it cleared. Good luck apparently. The rain, not the firemen, though I'm sure they were, lol...

I usually use the same re the sugar. But the plums are quite tart. And once I nuked one of the bit ugly lemons that I didn't think it would have much lemon, there was heaps. Only used one.