Month: January 2007

Two quick updates, since giving up wheat and gluten a few months ago I have to confess that I’ve been feeling a lot better.  I’ve lost about 10 kg, most of my hayfever symptoms have disappeared, the tightness in my tummy is gone and frankly I feel MUCH better.  I wonder if  its a gentic…

It seems that the varroa mite has won. Over the summer break two things happened, outbreaks of the mite were discovered outside the containment line (in fact close to me) and the maker of the best posion refused to pay to have their chemical registered as a bee-cide. They didn;t wat to be associated with killing…

Ladies and gentlemen, last night we cracked open a unit of the first vintage of Maple Hill mead.  Yes, a good nine months ago I ran a little experiment to see what a basic mead might taste like and yesterday we found out.  Stunning is the only word that can describe it.  So while you huddle…

Yesterday, I spent the day at a “Habitat for Humanity” site, installing doors, and, while the thought of me performing manual labour IS would constitute “an odd happening”, it’s not what I’m writing about. It was when I was coming home it got strange. Shelley phoned me and said there were police cars cruising up…

So, I was calmly minding my own business in traffic (HA!) on the way home from work tonight, when I looked at the mountains. It was a crystal clear twilight, as it can only be when it’s -20C, so I looked to the silhouette of the mountains which was clear and sharp…and what was there?…