Recent content by Ziggymole

Thank you very much everyone. Leaf cutter bee makes sense as I had one in the garden a couple of years back who made a home in a plant pot on the patio table and I spent many happy hours watching her carry bits of leaf into the nest. It also explains my son's "caterpillar" a piece of rolled...

It's half the picture it once was to enable me to load it on here...... Obee - I'm nowhere near a novice let alone and expert but I've handled honey bees so I can tell the difference (I think). She's smaller than a honey bee and although there are quite a few of them digging their way into that...

Thank you everyone - but I'll stick to getting the kids to do these things for me. That's the little beastie Erica - any ideas what kind of bee she is? Ziggy

I've given up - I can't even put a picture in an album on here! Such is life. If anyone is interested I managed to get a photo in an album on here called ziggy's pics Why are these things so damn difficult? Ziggy

Hi Finman, Thanks but not the right one. Going to try and add a photo. Hope this works! This is the last time I'm going to try. Ziggy

I have my first bee colony in my garden - which is wonderful but I have no idea what kind of bees they are. They're not honey bees and they're not wasps either. They are burrowing holes in a decaying piece of 3"x2" handrail. They're quite dark in colour and without noticeably stripes. My son...

:welcome:And a welcome from me too. I'll be in dept 53. Ziggy

Very interesting thread this one as I will be setting out an empty hive to encourage some of the local feral bees to set up home! Very similar outlook to the OP, I have three acres of grassland surrounded by hedges and mature trees and can therefore set the hive out to suit the bees. Biggest...

Same here - and some how there is always a big bit and a small one. :) Ziggy

I honestly can't use a straight saw to make a straight cut - let alone get the same measurement twice - rebates are way out of that league! If you're in my carpentry ability band ..................................................... get help!:hairpull:

Hi Pete, Like most people when I moved I just registered with the nearest practice that was taking on new patients. After realising my mistake I put up with the situation until I was expecting and then went out and visited ALL the GP practices near my home until I found a surgery that suited me...

Erm no - not simples at all. Do what I did buy a suitable length of 4" x 4" timber and ask the store to put it through the bench saw or whatever so they end up all the same length and with nice square ends!! Ziggy

I make lots of candles and the only time I ever have a problem removing them from the mould is when I overfill the second pour and it runs down the gap between the first pour and the mould. (I hope that makes sense to you) That said I have never used a plastic mould of any description, just...