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I'm presently walking the 870-mile Wales Coast Path, in 4-day stints. We're right down in Carmarthenshire now, with just 200 miles to go, to Chepstow. Whenever we drive down and pass the signs to Tregaron and Llanddewi Brefi (which makes us smile) I think of how Pam would travel up to Conwy...

I have sent you a PM. We do not have any Welsh v English bias here, thank you.

Thanks for the mention of my piece on Heather Honey. See https://tinyurl.com/n4xeq4b

Bell heather is starting to show purple in Sychnant Pass, Conwy today.

I agree!

Thyme should do well.

Yes, produce not product.

I bought a cheap angle grinder and removed the sharp corners from the castellations in all my empty supers. Yes, it took a long time. It makes it much easier to place frames back in the supers.

Eva Crane's books are all very collectable. She visited us at Conwy BKA in 1993. We spent a weekend hunting round North Wales, looking for unrecorded bee boles. She was full of enthusiasm. She kindly signed my collection of her books. Archaeology of beekeeping is my favorite, and it's now very...

Tuesday 30th October, a Conwy Beekeepers' talk by Wally Shaw (Anglesey BKA) on Varroa. Message from Wally Shaw... The talk is about the ongoing evolutionary relationship between the honey bee, Varroa and deformed wing virus. Included in the talk is an account of how Varroa breeds in the hive...

See https://tinyurl.com/o3bm9mh for my list of uses. Any other uses?

Very successful event, nearly 30 honey sellers. We raised £825 towards Bees for Development in a collection. See pictures at https://tinyurl.com/ycotzj32

This Thursday 13th September, Conwy Honey Fair in Conwy High Street LL32 8DB. All the stall space is full now. Over 25 beekeepers from North Wales and beyond, plus plants, local crafts and Farmers' Market stalls. We expect to sell over a tonne of honey at the 700-year old Royal Charter Fair...

We hire out Lega 3-frame honey extractors to Conwy BK members. The bottom bearing is a 6mm diameter hardened chrome steel ball. We hold spares, in case users lose the bearing, when they are washing the extractor. Simply Bearings provide a very good service.

Here are some pics of my homemade hive stands https://tinyurl.com/ybtaa4rg

I suggest it is probably honeydew. My bees occasionally collect it. In my experience, any early season honey, eg. sycamore or hawthorn will have been eaten by the bees long ago, and replaced with summer honey. In a good season (like this year) here in north Wales my summer honey is nearly all...

Something for the weekend sir? A jar of honey maybe?

I would include a digital kitchen scale, approx £12 from amazon. I tare and weigh every jar as I fill it. I fill each jar to 1lb 0¼ounce, plus or minus ¼ ounce. The scale soon pays for itself, because you are not overfilling the jars. Filling in pounds and ounces is much easier than filling in...

If you are in Budapest, I recommend a visit to the Great Market, plenty of honey for sale there.

See my hive record here https://tinyurl.com/ybw4wfba This is based on the BBKA record card.