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I've already told them to poke it where the sun don't shine

yes, if it looked to be something more than a temporary mood swing down they would go to the area we renamed Soweto due to the absolutely dire condition of the feral beekeeper's hives (one hive actually disintegrated as we were moving it to a new stand!!) Don't worry about the three foot rule...

I've attached the record card I used

another thing, our apiary was long and thin so the bottom area was partitioned off with a few fencing panels separating the training area from all the nucs and any hot colonies (we had 'the feral beekeeper' who had 'grandfather rights' to use the apiary, his bees were a collection of the vilest...

yes, I had a separate folder for each hive with the apiary checklist in there which I've shared here before, each inspection, one beginner was in charge of the checklist and would fill it in as we inspected. I always turned up at the teaching apiary an hour before anyone else, have a quick...

I know both SWMBO and I share a common Irish ancestor, but it looks like I've found her long lost twin!!

don't depend on luck and crossed fingers, requeen at the first opportunity, if you insist on splitting, don't depend on them requeening themselves - introduce bought in queens. a bunch of weak nucs is not going to make an ideal teaching apiary, you need strong colonies. I never opened the...

Firstly, make sure you have an agreement with the committee as to who runs the apiary. As apiary manager you need free rein to arrange and control the site, if you are going to have multiple 'teachers' they still need to consult/agree with you before any significant intervention in each colony...

ta, saved me digging them out

money grubbing parasites with only a very tenuous 'claim' to the throne

An old workmate of my mother buys loads of honey off her (Mam acts as my agent and always has a stack of honey in her cupboard for her 'customers') as her daughter only uses real honey as a sweetener. Her husband however still insists on her buying cheap supermarket honey for him as he prefers...

well he has a horde of compulsive grovelling forelock tuggers who are happy for him to steal even more cash off us

no way am I moving to Oxford, full of weirdos and 'survivor bees'

a link to some jobclub forum of which I'm not a member tells me nothing

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Having watched that particular yootoob offering, itmight make the video a bit more interesting

tiny in the scheme of things. I think that orchards in general are more a source of pollen for the bees than nectar with some evidence of European beekeepers feeding syrup to the bees during orchard pollination contracts to top up their carbs supply.

but any savings you made are negated by the fact you now need to buy 14x12 broods, nucs etc.

:iagree: as do the judges who awarded me 'best commercial in Show' in the Royal Welsh this year (we were also narrowly beaten for best overall) I have two labels, both oval, the larger 'front' label just has Brynmair, Mêl Cymreig/Welsh Honey and the smaller one on the back with all the...

haven't seen anything on their website I need, and the things I used to buy off Simon are quite a bit pricier.