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Likewise Dani if you choose to go slightly further north than the other Mark, be nice to offer some payback for the sage advice I've been given here. 👍

Same here, learning lots from this. Still no wiser though on the best way to go. I'm looking to the future, and would like some unbiased advice from someone, rather than a salesman, who all seem a bit snake oily on this. I live in a converted fairly open plan barn, EPC is D, with an LPG...

I'm totally lost too Dani. To the point where I'll probably not do anything rather than get fobbed off. Just realised from reading a reply on this thread that @enrico is the guru I was trying to recall 🤣

There's someone on here who seems to be a bit of a guru in all things solar, ashp etc. so they may be able to help. but for the life of me I cant remember who. Just hijacking a little rather than create another thread, so if they see this , I too could do with some helpful input too. I'm...

I've just started supplying a really lovely delicatessen that sends hampers all over at Christmas, and sells throughout the year, and also a small niche gin shop, that uses the honey in manufacture. I was intending to up my game with the labels, and go over to the more professional looking...

Well done @enrico was just going to post the same advice, also having seen the result of a similar injury at work, which ended a guy's working life in a second. Always use safety trousers gloves boots and helmet, no matter how small the saw. I've got the bigger Einhell battery one too...

Bit overkill, but use an ammo box, the one with a seal, can fit the instavap in, plus spare battery, water to clean. And a tub of OA . I'll find the link to mine, bought two as they were on offer, smoker lives in the other.

Dull day, but much brightened by a visit from the EHO. Thanks to research on this forum and advice, guidance from you guys here a 5 * rating. 😎. I am really small, and no intention to get much bigger, but it's needed should I ever wish to do a market, and not too onerous at all, and a...

I was thinking the same @JamezF , I've never not qualified for free postage 🤣🤣

That's put my mind at rest, I had one colony I wasn't too sure about, so looked to add a frame of eggs. Not one frame in 4 Nucs and 2 hives at that already had any eggs or larvae that I could see.

Extracted the last of this years. Used @Swarm method of clearing supers. Did a handful of small stacks last night, only one stack failed to clear, and that was user error, the rhombus fell off 🤣. The rest just had a few bees in, really easy compared to a clearer board on each hive. Downfall...

Had the same recently, sting on neck, subsided as usual, then got a hammering on the foot two days later, while trying to sort the same defensive lot out. Neck became swollen around the original site again, far worse than before, definitely not stung there this time. All gone now, and stung...

Farm foods yesterday was 99p kilo. Using their vouchers takes between 5-8% off that.

I'm thinking the same, looking at 'alternative ' uses for OA within my field think I could easily justify it's use at work.

Steve. Forgive my stupidity. Just been from the hive donating the brood? Or if brood from a couple of hives, can it be from either or just one. The pheromone/ individual hive scent is confusing me, thought they would all scrap. Mark

Thank you. Should have had the courage of my conviction, but don't have the confidence yet. Hadn't got a reply before I went out, so I've dispatched the angry hive queen, and United them. So I'm back to thinking on the queen in the making nuc now. Think I'll dummy down a nuc, donate some...

The deed is done. Thanks for all the support and help. Far better behaved without the flying bees, though some still remained. Checked all the others first, to remind myself that I could still do this without pissing every colony off, and that it was just those bees, and not entirely me...

A while back I had a spare Queen cell from a swarm preventing split, two cells on one frame. Rather than waste it. I cut it out, and put it in a mini mating apidea thingy, together with a couple of cups of bees, and some fondant They drew out around the cell, but not a lot more. Left them...

Unite is the plan, odds of getting a successful mating are fading by the day, but not impossible. So united it'll be, safest option I think. Going to try late morning, the bled off flyers, hopefully, will help me find Queen first go. Ever the optimist 🤣 If not I'll try the pairing of frames...

Update. Realise i have to find the queen somehow, so been looking at all the methods. Today i moved the hive 100m and put a floor, brood box, a couple of frames and some brood in there, aiming to bleed off as many flyerrs as i can. Plus put the part filled supers on there too. Went prepared...