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Could you explain why? Having no drawn comb I was happy with, I used foundation (and I did leave 2 frames of brood with the queen in the bottom box), and 6 days on they seem to be drawing comb pretty well. Just wondering if I might encounter some problem I've not thought of. I fully accept...

Which was donated to charity, to be fair, though I do not know if it was Nepal

Where's the "like" button? I've read that if you could dig around under Nelson's column you could expect to find skeletons of REAL lions. I think it was a while ago though - maybe an ice age or two

This week's Guardian Week in Wildlife has both a bee collecting pollen from apple blossom (unlike mine, who fly straight out of the orchard to the OSR) and a Bengal tiger reputed to prey on honey hunters. Take care friends http://gu.com/p/47knt

We're all wimps. From a profile of Tony McCoy: >> Trouble started with a bad fall at Worcester in early October. “I punctured my lung, broke a couple of ribs and dislocated my collarbone,” McCoy says as he recites a bleak summary of damage. His fellow jockey Dougie Costello remembers McCoy...

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I'm pleased to say I seem to have done no lasting harm. Still a bit sore but got a lot of physical stuff done today. I'm humbled and suitably chastened and forewarned by some of the other stories and advice on this thread. Many thanks I'd just like to comment that I was not handling THAT much...

C'mon. This is a caring and nurturing thread ok? :-)

Celtic wisdom? Spot on - sometimes it's a sting

Hmm. Food for thought. Thank you.

Great excuse - thanks for the tip (though, to be honest I can get to mine in a Seat Leon with a ground clearance so low it will catch the crown of the road sometimes!) Seriously well done though - I hope the bees appreciate it! not worthy

Mmm. Internally or externally? I live beside a brewery and support them enthusiastically, but have never really taken to whisky. I was given some of this as a Christmas present and thought it was rather good - notwithstanding that it is not malt and it is whiskey not whisky...

Since that was also the cause, I guess there's a lot of sense in that. Just as good as Manuka, anyway

You see - I'm feeling better already Thanks for the advice MAAF. Self-discipline - that's what I need

It's the warm supportive ambiance that keeps me coming back to this forum

Just had a rather alarming twinge while replacing 2 far-from-full supers on the BB. Classic lifting-while-twisting, I guess - the beekeeping equivalent of lifting a child into a car seat. Had to ask SWMBO to finish the job and now feeling rather sore Not the first time in life - though the...

Tried this myself but the little blighters keep slipping out of 'em :biggrinjester:

Apiary notes 15 Apr 2015: Colony 3 - added 2 supers Apiary notes 14 Apr 2014: Colony 3 - added second super Apiary notes 17 Apr 2014: Colony 3 - queen cells!! Hmm :cool:

It's now Indiegogo's most funded project ever. Wow