Weights & Measures

A morning spent fighting with the installation of a new WC flush cistern. On the one hand, it is pleasing one can get spare parts for a system first installed in the '70s and partly renovated in the '90s but the modern day push to save costs means lots of confusing shortcuts. The replacement set covers a wide range of models and it's cheaper to send it with lots of different screws and plastic parts that one doesn't need for your particular model. This is not explained and the instructions are simply loads of technical drawings without a single written word. On the one hand understandable - avoids having to print instructions in 30 languages but a pain for those like me who don't do technical drawings.

Somehow managed to get it working but not properly just in time as mother-in-law arrived. The visit was doomed from the word go and for me ended prematurely. I disappeared to fill jars of honey from last weeks crop.

The harvested quantity disappointing but not surprising given the self-inflicted swarming. The honey itself looks good, I think with a high proportion of honeydew, just what my two top customers want. As they will be over soon they can test it and place their orders which I will then ship to Eire/UK - flight security nowadays means no chance of taking it back themselves. Hope granddaughter Charlotte and son J  approve.

In the Blip the last drop in the 28th jar - the previous 27 had 500g and this last one 405g. Have to use this jar ourselves as it will probably break all the EU rules on weights & measures.

A balanced view of life is generally not a bad standpoint. Not everything in life is B&W and above all not everything white is as clean as the washing powder manufacturers claim and not everything black (or any shade from olive onwards) is bad.

In the extra photo, a comparison of the colours - the darker honeydew and the pale first harvest, mainly dandelion which solidified within a week. The honeydew should stay fluid.