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Welcome. I grew up on a farm near Higham on the Hill

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We have a similarly semi-managed couple of acres where the bees are - old grazing pasture where we have planted fruit & native trees and not done much else. Last year the local council did a survey so they could call it a site with "wildlife value", as a bit of protection against planning...

This sounds like a recommendation. Would you mind posting which one? Tx

The app on my phone suggest Scabious. It's that a possibility?

Fascinating. What is the "drying" process, or was that not fully explained? I assume high pressure filtration is also happening at some point in the chain, possibly at high temperature?

There is an intention to reduce the screening age to 50 - a good thing too; it got my best mate in his 50s and took him before he was 60 Bowel screening to start at 50 It looks as if it might be a "home test" kit in future. We're all experts now! I imagine this might have been disrupted by Covid

Sneaked into the kitchen for an overnight stay a couple of years ago

Please say it was a French restaurant 😂

Thanks for the example of raw milk - a good one. Since I spent part of my life milking cows for a living and part of it as a man from the Min of Ag, you might have thought I'd have recalled it :rolleyes: The .gov page that explains what raw milk is also goes to some length to imply very heavily...

It's funny that English, which is so good at borrowing words from other languages and making one up when we need a new one, does not have a word to encapsulate what we mean. It's true that "raw", applied to food almost always means uncooked. You can have raw sewerage and raw data - both of which...

Good shot Curly. "The Clouds of Sils Maria". As it happens, a friend sent me this from the alps yesterday

Following a tip from a bee inspector, this year I discovered hemp straw. He buys it specifically for the purpose (from horse bedding suppliers, I think). I happen to have enough left over from a building project to last until I can't lift supers. Lights, burns, lasts, smokes, no sparks, no...

The High Park part of the Blenheim estate, where the ancient oak woods are, is in the southern part of the park, about half way between Woodstock and Long Hanborough. I know there are beekeepers in the latter, which is about 2km away, but there are beekeepers scattered all over Oxforshire, just...

. Can you point me to a source for the 5-25 range? The number I carry around in my head is 3-10, because I "read it somewhere". I'd quite like to correct myself if I'm wrong. Thanks

These work a treat. I've had one for 6 years. Make sure the tank has an immersion as near the bottom as possible - it makes a big difference

Possibly worth mentioning that some WBCs (Thornes? Of a certain age?) have removable OMF - certainly a couple of mine do I wish this discussion had happened before I shook mine out earlier this year, as advised by a bee farmer - though they have now recovered well, btw. I put the flare-up in...

Maybe you have done the right thing, you never know. It sounds as if the queen and both colonies were struggling, so combining could be better for all. Delaying the mating flight by a week or two could result in more drones and better mating. Nil desperandum and good luck

I also have OSR, and I like it - it sets to a nice paste, not to concrete as some claim. Maybe there's an admixture of other nectar that moderates it a bit. It does provoke April swarms though. I keep local mongrels and for historical reasons I think there are a lot of Italian genes in my area...

I simply misread the days in my record. I thought I'd taken the Q out on Sat, but it was Sun. I went back the following Sat, which was only 6 days The QC I left was the emerged cell that produced the Q who led the swarm The end result was exactly as planned, but the route was not as direct as...