Virginia Cheeseman Blog

Sun at last, could this be it? The day that summer finally arrives, it has done nothing but rain here recently. Storm after storm and everywhere is completely sodden. My garden seriously looks like a rainforest, the plants have grown into giants and the weeds (wildflowers as I prefer to call them) seem to have taken over. Thankfully the bugs have stayed dry and the power has remained on while my husband has been away for the last ten days, he returns later today. We have had so much trouble with the roof on my bug room, there is the permanent leak in my office but a bucket solves that, I’m just pleased there were no break through floods in there, as we have had on numerous occasions. The power problems also seem to be linked to water and rewiring is high on my hubby’s ‘to do when he gets back’ list. The beginning of the week was very busy with orders but they have tailed off over the couple of days (getting towards the end of the month). I have spent a lot of time 'potting up' ...

All on my own, it’s that time of year again when my husband has gone to Spain with his motorbike friends and my daughter has gone to watch the Le Mans car race in France. I am desperately trying to catch up with all the paperwork piled on my desk, some of it dates back to April and some letters are unopened! I have really got behind with everything lately, as ever the daily bug care has to come first or they will literally die but I clearly have too many bugs as I never seem to get much time for anything else. I finally have the leaflets printed for my Ginny’s Jungle parties and they look brilliant, almost too good to just giveaway! I need to sort out the wording for the website and then it will be up and running. The bugs mostly continue to thrive and I have had plenty of orders this week, which is always good. I keep looking at my various Madagascar millipedes, I’ve seen plenty of mating but no eggs as yet. I have been trying to get more Giant African Train millipedes but I’m told th...

Sorry, brief blog this week. I simply don't have the time as we are off to a wedding today. I was planning on writing the blog yesterday but having my great-nieces after school and then my mother in-law for dinner really didn't leave any time. Next Friday I will be all alone, my hubby will be whizzing around Europe on his annual motorbike trip with his friends and our daughter will be at the 24 hour Le Mans car race in France. It will be considerably longer than 24 hours for her as it is the highlight of her year and she will be camping there with friends. What’s the term? Petrol-heads? Why can’t they just love cute animals like me? Our son is the same, he’s looking at new cars and thought he would bore me with the details this week. He did show me a photo of a purple one that briefly caught my attention. I received my new little friends this week, that I mentioned last week. Some scorpions, spiders and millipedes. Among them a ‘new to me’ species of giant millipede from Madaga...