Pitchwood Products

16/06/2026

Can you see them?? 🐝🐝 There has been a lot of interest around this bait hive and a stack of beehive bits in the ope shed beneath this afternoon.... 🤔🤔 I am hoping to be back from site by midday tomorrow as between 12 and 1 I might be getting some new neighbours!! 😆 That tends to be the time that bees swarm and these property viewers were scout bees! 🤨 There were quite a few so I am hopeful!! ☺️

Didn't make at the weekend due to another pesky migraine...once they are on the way there is no shifting them! 🤢 Should be okay for Newent Saturday Market this weekend! 🤞

11/06/2026

Day 2 of 3 having a work experience lad today...we went exploring the paddock once it stopped raining! ☔ Found all sorts including this beautiful day flying moth! 🥰 Spiders with Enormous egg sacs, moths, butterflies, crickets, grasshoppers, grasses, herbs, flowers....and a fox!! 😀🦊 No sign of the otter on the stream today though! 🦦 He saw palmate and smooth newts on a site yesterday... rescued from a manhole... 🦎☺️

We have a lass for 3 days next week too...hope we can keep it up!! 😀 It is quite tiring, especially when you are trying to do bits of work in-between!! 😛

Newent Friday Market in the morning (when hubby takes boy to a site) then Shambles Market Stroud on Saturday. ☺️

10/06/2026

One of my neighbouring stalls holders at the weekend was ... ☕ Her work is beautiful and functional at the same time...we tried one of my barley twist candles in one of her candle holders 🕯️and 'Hey Presto!!' 😍 'the sum is greater than it's parts'! We feel a collaboration coming on! 😀 Siobhan also makes soap dishes (although she had sold out so I had none to try...) so watch this space! 🥰 Siobhan considers the sustainability of her materials so a lady after my own heart!! 💚

07/06/2026

All set up at !! 🥰 It was a last minute cancellation that came through Friday afternoon! 😛 It was serendipity because one of my repeat customers had come to the market especially for some of my soap!! Sea Salt and Lime is her favourite!! ☺️💚

Keep trying to post...but having lots of lovely conversations and a few sales! 😆

06/06/2026

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Insects join list of species capable of solving simple ‘box-and-banana’ problem that demonstrates basic intelligence

06/06/2026

Surprise!! 😀☺️ A last minute cancellation means I will be at The Fold on Sunday! I hadn't managed to get any space this year...but hey presto!! 😆🥰 Hope to see some of you there!? ☺️ Including stall holders I haven't seen in ages! Should be sunny too...find me in the main barn...along with folk including FranHigginsonart little batch NCK Jewellery and Made By Mrs J

03/06/2026

I had to take a pic of this splendid beast!! 🥰. Partly because it was so beautiful...it shone in the sunshine, the colours are metallic...but also so I could try and work out what it is!! 🤔📚📖📒 Luckily we are a household of innumerable identification guides!! 😆

This is a male 'Nemophora degeerella', one of the 15 species of longhorn moths! It is a micro moth. 🦋 I know it is a male as it's antenna (horns!!) are soooo long! If you look carefully you can see the left antenna nearly reaching the left hand corner of the photo!! 😍😲 This is a new record for the garden!! 😀 Yes, we do keep a record! 👍📒

01/06/2026

I was at this Saturday...we were having Wi-fi and internet issues...great fun if you need to take a card payment! 😳 We muddled on... looking after each others stalls as folk went in search of signal🥰 Apparently the extreme heat has been causing issues everywhere! 🥵 I managed payments but it fell over if I tried to post!! 😀

ITV SW came and did a little piece for the news (last Saturday 5:45pm) about the market and it's 400 year old history and interviewed a few folks including Alana our indoor manager and Kirsty who put the exhibition about the history of the market and it's stall holders together. 🥰

01/06/2026

Ha ha! 🤣 What colour would you be(e)?? 🐝