...and smoke

Here's the smokey kitchen...

Bees

This chimney belonged to me first, I tried to tell the bees, but they decided the cooking smells were so good that while I wasn't looking they set up home there. Poor things when I lit the fire lots of them died and fell into the bend and blocked it. Result; next time I lit the fire all the smoke came back at me. I even had tar running down the cooker, and tears running down my face. So I made a wire bee hat for the chimney, to reassert my ownership. My garden helper, Edward took the thing to pieces, cleaned it out, I put the hat on and since then I've had a smoke-free kitchen.

It's been quite a difficult month because of the bees and also a very full teaching schedule; internet connection that didn't stay connected long enough for updates, and I was taking treatment for Giardia, a little stomach bug which is very pretty under the microscope, but made me feel uncomfortable. The treatment is worse though! Now the Secondary School are starting a month's holiday, so I just have the Bible School one day a week. I'll be able to catch up with friends a little, spend time working on the house, and perhaps get a few days' break away somewhere. I go to the farm most weekends, and that is a good place to relax.