Let's catch up again, shall we?!
Not going to bother saying it's been hectic, just take that as read. Friday was completely taken up with business, both client sites and getting Kai organised: Capability for Work forms to fill in, various documents to get scanned and printed, and I had to call the DWP to ask about Kai's ESA and PIP payments, now he's starting uni. Very helpful man told me he may still be eligible for some PIP as he may be considered a 'student with disabilities' - we'll have to wait and see.
My chair and Kai's desk arrived, and the plan was to set them both up on Saturday, but it was a very pleasant day and Ken wanted to get out of Bristol, so he and Kai bussed to just outside Bath, climbed to Kelston Round hill, and then went on to the start of the Cotswold Way - a goodly walk.
They arrived back quite late, but really enjoyed it. I spent the day preparing and freezing apples and general house and garden stuff...
Native bog iris near Roeg's Pool. Hoverflies love them!
And Tyjer loves the sun...
Sunday was brilliant wall-to-wall sunshine, so I started the washing early (as in 7 am) - towels and bedding, always a lot to dry...
Now, we have these absolutely gorgeous little burrowing bees at the top of the garden:
They are the most unaggressive bees I've ever met. You can walk through clouds of them and they completely ignore you - I'm not even sure they have stings. Wonderful little pollinators: you just have to be careful when hoeing that you don't fill in their burrows.
Mid morning, and next door was out using a device to pump out sulphur to smoke out (and probably kill, sulphur being poisonous to insects) the bees on his side at the top of the garden. My washing was still hanging out just over the fence.
Ever smelt sulphur? It absolutely stinks.
This morning he was out ranting at our hard-working garbage men for some imagined slight or other...
Kai got his registration completed on Sunday, and logged into his account - to find, to our horror, that the Uni hadn't cancelled his first registration, he has over a hundred lecture notes and reports from various tutors, and some bastard hacked his account and got it banned from Youtube. [headdeskheaddeskheaddesk] I'm now trying to get that sorted out...
However, my latest Starscream arrived - cheap on ebay, Bayverse but in gorgeous grey and green deco. I may very well leave him in alt mode and see if I can find a way to suspend him from the shelf...
Lunch! My stomach is grumbling...
Labels: busyness, garden, university
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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2 Comments:
It's all go over there, isn't it? :)
If they're ground bees (quite likely, although I thought they were solitary) then they don't have stings, hence the lack of aggression - they can't back it up :) I don't understand why people can't distinguish bees from wasps (assuming that was why your neighbour was being a complete idiot, although he has got a head-start...)
We had a tree bumble bee nest in one of our spare hutches this summer. It was only after they'd quietened down that I discovered they can be quite aggressive and perhaps I should have been a little more careful around them :)
Weave a curse for the idiot hacker...
Well, if hundreds of them all in separate burrows counts as 'solitary' then yes they are! But they have sanctuary here, and the top of the garden is now filled with a musical humming...
Oh, he knows they're bees. He just doesn't want them in his garden. He's spent the last 20 years trying and failing to grow grass on the (completely dry) slope, instead of using drought-resistant plants like we have. He strims it right down to the ground and expects it to thrive. Instead it's a dead zone - and since sulphur kills everything (that's why I used a sulphur candle in my greenhouse last year) he may very well have killed off what's left of the grass too.
Am working on the curse...
As far as I'm concerned people who deliberately harm bees are scum and deserve to have plagues of very large, very angry wasps delivered upon them!