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My local SBI for a start - though I dont think he's a loony. But let's not digress.

Further to this: According to my pdf, trickling can be done twice a year but vaping only once. What's the logic in that ?

I was wondering if the VMD regs prohibited winter vaping if OA is used earlier in the year (eg for a shook swarm) I've checked - Apibioxal says up to 2 treatment per year (winter & spring/summer)

I buy it from my local baker at £14 for 12kg box. I just collect it with my bread and doughnuts. They also give me used food grade buckets that all their various fillings come in.

I was thinking of people who you use brood and a half or nadir supers over winter. I use double broods and aim to have no supers on over winter.

My local commercial beekeeper sells all his honeys at £12/lb on-line + delivery (or collect from his family's local garden centre)

People seem to like all sorts of stuff in their honey. My local commercial beekeeper does a range of infused honeys eg tumeric, festive spices, cinnamon, blackcurrant, ginger and lemon all at £12/lb. Each to their own.

Thanks for that. It made me think about Apiguard; where supers are to be removed during the month long application. Its basically thymol. What do we know about residual thymol levels in wax and honey after treatment? I put a couple of extracted supers back on above the crown boards to be...

I just think of it as thick or thin and then wonder if it really matters

Quite a few of runners on my Maisemore nucs are looking rather worse for wear so I think Im going to cut them off and replace with plastic runners when I have a few hours spare.

my triple layer Oz suit has removable foam pads inside the knee pockets. Do they all have that ? I do like the plastic insert in the fencing veil top seam that helps to keep it off ones chin.

Thats what I do - the woodworking taught in school still comes in handy.

Thanks - Im still getting to grips with the abbreviations.

We are having an Eonn.next solar panel / battery system installed. The FIT is currently 40p/kwh for the 1st year.

I buy for the club membership and Rawlings offer a BKA discount and free delivery for 32 boxes or more. I ordered around 4500 jars(56 boxes).

It is possible to remove the alcohol from the petrol/alcohol mix. Just add water and shake the fuel, the alcohol will mix with the water and the petrol floats on top to be decanted. The volume of petrol will decrease after the water is added. Adding some food colouring makes the interface...

I think it depends on how old your engine is, how much use it has and for how long you leave fuel in the machines tank. Ive got a 30yr old Kawasaki hedge trimmer, it starts OK and runs OK on E10 based 2 stroke and Ive not had any leaks either. I store it after running till empty.

I turn all my OSR into soft set and wait until the end of the season for the runny honey.

The wives of boilermakers got asbestos-related lung disease from shaking out the dusty work clothes when they washed them.

I use a basic spreadsheet (LibreOffice) on my PC and have a copy on dropbox which allows me to use it in the field on my android phone.