Cecily

I have been waking up early these days but H was still up before me. H was off to Donnington le Heath, click HERE for the website, to take part, as a actor, in a medieval day. Her alter-ego is Cecily. When I had finished at the lottie I popped over to see her to lend some support. I drove there in Degsy. He needed a run after being stood her a few weeks.

Back at the lottie I decided to tidy up the plot and harvest some more spuds. I took down the bamboo frame for the French beans. I just left the vines on the soil. I went through the Pumpkins and harvested the fruits. They are not so big but big enough. I got the wheelbarrow and chucked in the spent bean vines. Pumpkin vines and Sweet Corn stalks. The ended up in the big compost bin. The compost I made last year just have had seeds from Don's Huckleberry plants. They grew very nicely but they are weeds. I worked through the top end of Bed1 cleaning up the Huckleberry plants, other weeds and the remains of the Pumpkins, Beans and Sweet Corn. The soil is still as dry as a bone but it makes weeding easy.

The nice job was to harvest the grapes. Not as many as last years as they got hit with a late frost whilst in blossom. I also dug up a another row of spuds. I still have twelve rows to dig up.

Before going to the lottie I had to empty the back of Degsy as it contained a load of Bee hive parts. I was given a hive a few weeks ago. When I got back from Donnington le Heath I parked Degsy back onto the garage. I took the harvest round to the back of the house. I tipped a couple of tubs of weeds from the lottie into the green bin at home. Then I set about cleaning up the "gift" hive. I got the blow torch out and the wire brush. I played the blow torch all over the hive boxes burning away the cobwebs and hopefully any bugs. The heat also softened the propolis which I scrubbed off with the wire brush. The hive parts were stacked up in the garage which required tidying up that side of the garage.

I noticed that Degsy was ticking over a bit quickly. When all the other jobs were done including sweeping out the back of Degsy I warmed up Degsy then backed off the throttle stop screw. When a fraction of slack could be felt on the throttle stop I then adjusted the slow running screw to set the tick over proper. I brought the tick over down until the "charge" light, on the dash board, started to glow. After a quick spin round the estate the tick was proved to be spot on.