Beef stifado in the slow cooker, the house smells lovely.

School run

I don’t think I can watch the news anymore, what with the Orange Chump having his nose up the ‘bears’ backside!

I was six years old, but I have never ever forgotten the children of Aberfan, the sadness of watching the news at such a young age and my parents explaining what had happened.

Follow along if you would like to follow our beekeeping journey

Very productive morning, living room rug shampooed and drain in the sun, cushion covers and throws on the line, carrot, sweet potato and coriander soup made for lunch, supermarket shop done. It’s amazing what a good nights sleep and some sunshine can do for my mood.

I’ve given in - got the heating on!

Made Caribbean Oxtail & butter bean stew tonight, never tried to cook oxtail before, it’s absolutely delicious if I say so myself

Had a rubbish night last night, hoping for better tonight, was 5am before I fell asleep.

I was just reminiscing that years ago electrical appliances often came without a fitted plug and you had to wire them up……not sure I could wire a plug these days.

The pickin chicken has thrown some interesting choices today, Oxtail Stew & Drunken Pork amongst them. Off to the butchers I go.

Busy day today, posted my Vinted parcels, made some fire honey to send to a friend, off for a swim in a while then off to the beehives.

In other news I picked up a lovely pair of boden trousers, navy blue with pink spots in a charity shop, will give them an outing to the museum tomorrow I think.