Saturday morning was spent pottering in the garden. The main achievement was that we prepared the small bed in front of the store room and transplanted a number of Beard Iris rhizomes. A white specimen was planted in the centre of this narrow bed with a fabulous, almost black, variety planted either side. They should look fabulous next year.
In the afternoon we went out in search of a stone bowl to act as the reservoir for a water feature in the ornamental greenhouse. We thought we knew of the perfect supplier, but it seems that they have offloaded their stock, as they got fed up with moving the damned things around ... Oh well, back to the internet, I guess?
Later in the afternoon I reconfigured Hive #2 for a Bailey frame change. A second brood box was added, filled with fresh foundation. A clearer board was placed over that, and the supers were returned to the hive. Hopefully the bees will clear down from the supers overnight, and I will be able to replace them with a feeder filled with syrup tomorrow.
In the evening we headed out for dinner with a friend of 30%. I don't think either of us were particularly looking forward to the evening. Whilst the friend is good company, her husband can be a little overbearing and tends to spend the evening regaling you with tales of his previous heroics, be they in a boardroom, a sailing yacht, or his workshop! He is one of this people that isn't really interested in anything anyone else has to say, so you just have to sit there and listen to him drone on.
The evening panned out pretty much as expected. The greek themed, barbecue food was beautiful and the summer pudding desert with homemade ice cream was a perfect balance to the grilled meats and greek salad. A cheese board rounded off the meal and we were able to make our excuses and head home shortly before nine o'clock.
The husband was his usual self, and it was nice to make an early escape.
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