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Spent the afternoon checking 25 colonies - and came back with a list of kit to put on them tomorrow including supers, double broods, and other equipment to replace old or repairable kit.. 24 of the colonies were on 9 seams of bees with full brood boxes…and a few were double broods from over...

just wait and see...if only you'd read my contribution to a thread a couple of weeks ago and the vitriol from people who could and should know better.... sometimes it's best not to over share on here and just read up, and get on with what you want to quietly so the apple cart of general opinion...

do you paint molten wax on them to help the bees take to them ? S

Meon Valley Beekepeers got back to me - they said they had to choose a weekend to book the hall. I guess with the movement of the end of May Bank Holiday into June and that weekend being the Jubilee celebrations that weekend was out too. A tough choice - both auctions are good. Meon Valley...

Bit late but it’s still 1/4/22

A shame the Meon Valley Bee auction clashes with the GBKA auction on the 7th May….they don’t usually chose the same weekend ! KR S

I wonder if this is an issue for many Ukrainian beekeepers whether we could organise a trailer load of sugar from the UK to support Ukrainian beekeepers…? KR S

and do you think we learned a lesson then..? apparently we can't discuss it here though as the thought Police don't like it

out and out censorship Dani. very said to see you are not happy for the other side of a story wrt refugees to be told Please move my post to an 'acceptable' part then my comments were valid and true or perhaps this is Communism at play ...?

You're not supposed to use a colander Pike ! KR S

Feed it back to the mods and owners. it used to be the case you could do what you suggest but it changed I have written more than 1 update since May 2020 when the new forum owners took it over it took me ages to work out how to post to my blog and a 'new thread' was seen as the easiest way...

Can you fill some plastic containers, balloons, anything really and bring some diesel back for me please

They do when there is a new entry or thread

Because it’s a blog. That’s why.

When March comes in like a lion and goes out like a Lamb....Well I guess we had Storm Eunice or was it her successor at the start of the month, then the winds dies back, the bees suddenly became visibly active and a week of gradually finer weather with plum and now pear blossom out....and then...

Just squash the queen cups - not like they have a whole brood box to hunt through if you’re worried weather going colder that’ll peg them back don’t even consider splitting until mid April at the earliest - no drones in any quantity and they won’t be mature anyway. Early spring supercedure is...

Over the past week I’ve dismantled a barn and transported it to my main base to be built over Easter hopefully..30’x9’x11’. It’s nothing much to look at but the steel cladding alone was worth the price at auction. Also have 200 fencing stakes to creosote prior to repairing some fences when I...

I see Bee Tradex has had a name change for 2023 and an earlier date to February… Now the Beekeeping Show

Some reality in this. 💪🏼 #farmersofukraine

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