2011-06-16 Garden in June

Hibiscus

Why do my potatoes do this? Its not the only one !!

A ladybird without spots………..

A Scarce Swallowtail, we have a lot of these !

Possibly a Cardinal ?

Our fabulous lavender hedge…..well the bee’s think so anyway….

Hibiscus (again!)

Grayling

A Cleopatra….a sort of Brimstone. If it was to open its wings you would see the bright orange flash.

Honey bee on lavender.

Cleo again, the orange flash, just visible in this picture.

Cicada , noisy but nice!!

There is a butterfly somewhere, possibly a Southern White Admiral ??

2011-06-15 Total Eclipse of the Moon

This is not a good picture, we don’t have a tripod……but it is A picture of the eclipse, which we saw very well in its full and final stages, the first stages being hidden by cloud. Still i think we saw it better than anyone I have spoken to so far…..

2011-06-09 Hay Making at Campels

 
The men did the hard work, the 4x4 was the tractor……………….



I helped a bit at the end !!!

2011-06-03 Olive trees in flower

 

 

 

Sarah and Mikes olive tree

full of flower !

Christian and Francine’s olive tree

also full of flower, and one olive from last year !!

 

Hoping for a good crop this November…….

2011-05-30 Spotted on the Mendip hills !

 

One way to liven up a heap of farmers lime!!

2011-05-27 Dads 80th Birthday

 

Dad (centre wearing his “made in 1931 all original parts” apron, left Uncle George, right Harold.

Some of the family !

 

 

Sorry mum, this was the best picture with you and Dad on it, that we had…..you look a little bluuuuuuuuuurrred !!!!

2011-05-19 The Hills Hoist !!

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_Hoist

All the info you need is contained in the wikipedia link , we bought it because after 3 flimsy washing lines had come crashing to the ground on our gusty mountain, and NO we haven’t got 2 trees to string a line between unfortunately !

Dave unpacking the hoist.

Dave deciding to return the hoist to its native Australia

(no he’s digging the 750mm deep hole really!)

how to hold it upright, use a pyramid !

 

a good dept of concrete is needed to secure the base (note the old way in the background !)

 

All level

 

Concrete going in…….hope its upright Dave?

 

 

24 hours later….all set.

I feel like I'm at Glastonbury for some reason ?

Top going on….point of no return, once on its locked !

Just checking the stringing….

and the up and down bits !

does that look straight ? oh well too late now !

looks straight this side..

all I needed was something to hang the bikini on !

All finished !

 

Not quite, a few days later, and Dave has built a level area around the hoist and steps up to it…..perfect.

 

Welcome to our world !