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About fifteen years ago the 999 service in Leeds was switched off and redirected to the southeast because they were expecting heavy rain and flooding down there. I wonder if they've done it again this time. I hope I don't need to find out.

I've new glass going in my windows today. The lads putting in in have disturbed a colony of honey bees in the eaves that I didn't know was there. Fortunately the bees are not aggressive. When the weather warms up I'll need to get my ladder out and send the (comparatively) young and definitely...

I like the look of the ekes/crown boards/feeder boards that Abelo sell and that Laurence at BMH has made and demonstrated. Were I in any way practical I'd be making them. A veritable Swiss Army knife piece of kit.

The undertakers in my garden hives usually carry the dead and dying about ten yards from the hive and drop them on the patio. A visitor was surprised to see one just miss her cup of tea last summer. They're busiest in the spring, when the winter bees are dying off. The patio can look a mess, but...

Rab's advice was spot on and couched in very clear terms. It needed to be said and it needed to be said in the strongest possible way.

I helped my bee buddy set up his new hive scale under one of the hives in his garden. I must admit that I couldn't stop laughing as he opened the app on his phone and showed me all the information it gave him. The cherry on the cake is that when we compared the weight it gave with the luggage...

There will be shrubs. But a replacement tree is the priority, and the only aspect my wife will let me get involved with.

A photinia red robin and other shrubs went at the same time as the hawthorn.

I've just grubbed up a dying hawthorn tree from the front garden and need a small tree to replace it. Not too high, not too wide a canopy and with roots that'll go down rather than break up the drive. The situation is north facing, with sun early morning and late afternoon. I'm thinking malus...

It's how morris dancing originated.

I'll need to speed up my uncapping this year. To date I've been using a fork, but have recently watched a couple of videos on Facebook showing a knife being used. The heated knife was particularly impressive. Is it an extra £100 better than an unseated one?

Unfortunately once a complaint has been made TS has to follow it up.

If, about half a mile from that organic farm there was a cottage with a flower garden, vegetable plot and orchard and whose owner regularly used chemical sprays and fertilisers, could the beekeeper guarantee that his bees never visited that cottage? It would take some training.

And while we're at it, let's consider "organic" honey.

I hitchhiked through upper New York State to Canada a couple of days before Woodstock. No-one mentioned it to me. I then hitched west a couple of days after and everyone asked if I was coming from there. That and La Coupole are the two things that have haunted me all my adult life.

But how many can your dishwasher hold and how long is its cycle? It surely wouldn't be feasible to do several hundred jars that way. And how do you treat the lids?

what do you do to prepare your jars for the harvest?

Curley, you have a lot of jars. What do you do? I do as some others have said. The jars come in a box, the lids in a separate bag. I swill them out to get rid of dust and dry them in an oven. I put the lids in a pan of boiling water. I did 400+ jars and lids this year. It took a long time...

Jules has temperature and humidity gadgets installed in the hive. I suspect very few of us here have them. Possibly we have a case of too much information causing unnecessary concern, something akin to consulting Dr Google about aches and pains.

What do you mean, "the old milk bottles"? My milkman still brings bottles with foil tops. Before I had a porch build I left him little plant pots to slip over the bottles. He now puts them in the porch.