To make your own smoked streaky bacon

Part One. The approach of winter, a grand country house and the wool from a sheep.

Winter approaches here at a pace.

I placed the mouse guards on the front of the beehives in the last few days. Long strips of steel, cast with holes that let the bees come and go through the entrance block to the hive. Nothing else can get inside now. Any invaders that might feel inclined to set up home for the winter months in a dark corner of the broo…