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05/09/2026

It's Saturday Caturday and Kitty just makes it too easy! No kitty the dishwasher is not a good place to chill

Have a great weekend everyone.

04/09/2026

I sowed a bunch of cosmos seeds in the spring, but with the heat none of them took. Apart from this one that flowered today.

03/09/2026

Hello there Folks, and welcome to September. I’m sure, like me, you have all rejoiced at the recent rainfall. But how do you feel about the thunderstorms? Personally, I am in the love camp. We pull up chairs as if it’s a favourite movie.

I’m sure this would have been mentioned in geography lessons many decades ago, but I decided to read up on the ins and outs of a thunderstorm.

Thunderstorms start their life in the big fluffy looking cumulonimbus clouds that you can watch rising up into the sky.

These build when warm moist air is forced to rise by colder air, this could be from meeting a cold front, mountains, coastal cliffs etc.

As the positively charged water in the warm air rises higher it cools and then freezes into ice particles. These particles join together and downdrafts send them back down in the cloud.

Despite these clouds looking like giant cotton wool balls, they are actually quite turbulent inside causing the particles to collide. In simple terms this creates static electricity to build up in the cloud with a negatively charged bottom and a positively charged top.

This static electricity will look for a way to discharge, which can happen within the cloud, between clouds or by connecting with a positive charge rising up from the ground.

A lightening bolt can reach up to 30,000°C, that’s five times hotter than the sun! This rapid change in temperature causes the air around the lightening strike to expand and contract making the bang.

Sound travels much slower than light at 343m a second (at 20°C) so every three seconds between the flash and bang is about a kilometre away.

In France between 100 and 200 people are stuck by lightening each year with 10 to 20 of those being fatal. There isn’t any individual data for Normandie, but one person has been hospitalised this year and some livestock has been killed when lightening connected with the electric fence in the field.

So, if like me you enjoy watching the storms, remember to do so from a safe place.

I have used a stock image, so if you have any storm photos, I’d love to see them.

01/09/2026

More fun bee facts! Each frame in the body of a Dadant hive has around 7500 cells!

I became curious after finding eggs on a frame I was going to remove. I left them there but wondered how many bee babies it was. So I grabbed a sheet of wax foundation and counted them 😅. Each side has 28 rows of 69 cells.

31/08/2026

I've realised I forgot to share this, it's a piece of comb I had to remove from the hive that had missing frames. In the close up you can see what looks like tiny grains of rice, They are bee eggs.

30/08/2026

Relaxing weekend away in our little caravan, despite the forecast we had some lovely weather. Walked into Granville and a couple of dips in the sea. And during the rainy parts I got to finish my PowerPoint presentation.

29/08/2026

Time to reveal my project!

With the encouragement of my bee mentor Richard Griffen, I will be holding beginner bee courses starting this autumn.

My current plan is to do a two-day course (non-consecutive) with a total of 12 hours theory, Plus a hive visit in the spring for 120 euros per person.

I would need a minimum of three people to make it viable but a maximum of six to make sure I have enough time for everyone.

The sessions will be held in Ponts, 50300.

Please let me know if you'd be interested with your availability and I'll contact you when I have some dates.

Siret: 53821507000011

29/08/2026

It's Saturday caturday and this week we have Kitty making sure she never misses a meal!

Have a great weekend everyone.

27/08/2026

Another video for you. This behaviour looks similar to robbing, however this is a healthy hive at 4pm. It's around this time that newbees make their first orientation flights, they fly in ever increasing circles while checking out the land marks so they can find their way home.

26/08/2026

A follow up on the super I left out for the bees to "rob".

They've done a wonderful job, all the honey is in the hives for the bees and the wax frames can be stored for next spring. After i bash the ants off.

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