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weekend in pictures

I've been having a play with my new camera lens - this one - which is a huge a proper photographers one, and the photos are amazing.  Here's our weekend in pictures, the first ones using my new lens. 




 



1. My favourite old shed, built right on the water.  I would love to live here.  It's like a giant houseboat.

2. Messy spring garden with lots of flowers, and a naughty chook that escaped from the pen.

3.  It's finally warm enough to cook outside and we gave the campfire a good work out. Here are Elsa's vegetarian "sausages" also known as grilled asparagus.  Sadly the other snags at the back cooked a bit too quickly. 

4.  I can't take enough photos of the lovely sage flowers growing by the back door, but this time I managed to capture a bee in flight! 

5. A new mobile phone for the children, they made it themselves and to be honest the coverage is pretty good for around here. 

6. Happy campers huddled around the barbie at Sunday's River's Table Event - the second in the series that was a bit of a wet and wild day but delicious nonetheless.  More photos here 

I hope your weekend was filled with good things too.  

In which the bees swarmed


Even the messiest of garden's look charming in this spring weather.  The soft golden light washes over the new green growth and looks so beautiful, that any unmown grass, unpulled weeds and untrimmed edges go unnoticed in the wake of pretty spring blossoms.

Lucky for me.  Because there is so much exciting stuff going on this month that those lawns and weeds and edges need to go unnoticed for quite some time more.

Already this month I've styled a photo shoot for Feast Magazine - look out for the January issue  (although you can check out this month's crumpet recipe to see my granny's crockery).

I've worked with my friends at picnic event on their farm.  I wish I wasn't so busy so I could take some photos, the weather was gorgeous, the setting idyllic and the food delicious.

Then there's a school fair to work on, a school camp to cook for, a market to get cracking on, a website to write for and a summer preserving party to start growing for.

In all this busyness, the bee population quietly grew so much that half the hive buzzed off searching for bigger digs.  They swarmed.  Over the house and off to nether.  Half the workforce gone and half the honey harvest taken as rations.  Sigh.  After wishing them well on their journey, I looked up swarms and came to the conclusion that I am an inattentive beekeeper.

Inattentive beekeeper with unmown grass, unpulled weeds and untrimmed edges.  That's me.  And doesn't it look charming in this glorious spring weather?