Blogs from Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 10

Today, we should visit in the morning the little towns Bourton-on-the-water & Chipping Campden. Really nice towns, but not spectacular. In the afternoon, we should visit the Roman Villa (Yanworth), where ruins of one of the biggest villa's from the Roman Empire were open for public. This would be the highlight of the day. However, this day was a disappointment (not by the weather). Today, at 9 we left our hotel in Swindon after the breakfast. First, we should visit Bourton-on-the-Water. We took a tourist route with the bus. Our driver drove "adventurous". Some roads were very small, and we had a big tour bus. The driver drove maybe a little bit hard, also through the curves of the road, and sometimes we had to brake very hard, because of oncoming traffic. However, I never felt ... read more

Hola a todos Finalmente llegó el verano. El cielo azul, los pájaros cantando! Y hace tanto calor que parece el trópico. En el jardín todo esta creciendo de manera impresionante. Durante todo el mes de abril y hasta mediados de mayo las matas parecían quedadas, esperando, pero ahora están crecidos, exuberantes y muy saludables (ver figuras 1, 2 y 3. Claro está, la maleza también crece – pero todo el trabajo que hicimos en abril está teniendo sus frutos – está todavía manejable con relativamente poco trabajo. Ayer (Lunes) ayudé a hacer mantenimiento de las matas de tomates (ya tienen uno que otro tomatico verde). Pero lo que había que hacer era quitar los puntos donde empieza a crecer otro tallo (Figura 4). La idea es mantener uno solo central para que la mata no gaste ... read more

The big day dawned & we had a tasty breakfast, showered & headed up to the barn to put on the finishing touches. I then got changed & Vix drove me over to Cheltenham for the legal bit at the registry office withnessed by close family & a few friends only. Very simple but nice ceremony there. We then headed back to Postlip for a quick bite & anothger change into the real wedding clothes! Mark got changed & headed down to the barn to meet & greet the guests whilst Clare, Vix & Zahira got th task of making me look as pretty as possible! Running a tad late the lovely B&B owner ran us down in her 4x4. Just as we were catching our breaths we heard the entrance music playing - Saffron's Wedding ... read more

Hola a todos! En el transcurso de las semanas que tengo trabajando aquí he visto que utilicen diferentes métodos de control de plagas y enfermedades. Así que esta semana voy a hablarles de todos los que he observado hasta el momento. 1. Primero que todo, y creo que esto es uno de las estrategias más importantes, es la rotación de los cultivos para asegurar que no se siembran miembros de la misma familia uno después del otro (por ejemplo no se debe seguir una siembra de tomate con berenjena o pimentón debido a que pertenecen a la misma familia: Solanaceae). 2. El uso de malla fina para cubrir a los cultivos. Esto se utiliza para las zanahorias, el repollo, el coliflor entre otros (figura 1). Es un método de control bastante generalista ya que evita los ... read more

We have checked out of the United States of America and can now look back on 53 days of special times with the most fantastic of memories. We have seen wonderful sights and met some delightful people. It has been all we had hoped for and more. Our last city visit was to Boston and our three days in ‘the Cradle of America” was just what we wished for. We last visited the city in 2001 when we met up with a good friend of ours (Kevin M) who was commuting to and from New York. We had done the ‘Duck Tours’ and Freedom Trail so this time we wanted to do a few different things. Last October I booked Boston Red Sox tickets for a home game versus the Orioles so that is where we ... read more