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Already done 3 demaree on hives with 10 frames of brood. Got another one which has filled 19 frames with bias. Looks as if I will need...

The fort clothing is really good, though as you say still get clammy inside. Still have my buffalo, and a Montane similar thing but...

Made up the new sides for one of my roofs this evening. Looks rather nicer than the lump of scrap that I started with James

What would you buy for yourself?

Can you say that again in a "Marvin the Paranoid Android" voice? :D James

Today I checked on the two 3-frame splits I took at the end of March. One of the queens has successfully mated, the other half still has...

Disastrous season so far.. Early spring in February/March and now cold with frosts and prolonged cold spell when black locust is in full...

James. I bought an einhell strimmer from Wickes on offer 2 weeks ago, really good round the garden, not going to call with brush and...

I was rung up last year by a roofer working on a church roof. I expected to be asked to remove bees from under the tiles but he said his...

Oh, look, you missed a trick there -- you could have just geared the extractor straight off the treadmill and used it to keep fit at the...

Taken apart a treadmill I picked up for £15 and I now have a box of parts i hope will get my extractor motorised in the near future, no...

Just added a second super to a single brood colony which I’m going to demarre asap. A mated nuc which was transferred to a nuc box in...

I realised that several of my advertised “5 frame” nucs will be 6 frame by the times it comes to the auction later this month so I had...

I find that the Soudal glue I use gets a bit stiff if I don’t warm it in front of my fan heater on cooler days. At the moment it’s not...

It's a method used by commercial beefarmers, so will never be endorsed by bbka. A case in point, a facebook post was put out about the...