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Rubbish - handy all the time.

Finding a sharpened pencil is a problem too. SWMBO is Sudoku addict!!!

Ted Hooper "Guide to Bees & Honey" is one of the best books around for dipping into. Google will get you there.

It's a bugger finding the big plastic bottles and all the other paraphernalia if you aren't already fully equipped with it. To old to get excited by this stuff - but was interested and better that watching Boris muck ups.

Back to the constipated mathematician syndrome? :rolleyes:

I wrap parcel tape - the brown stuff - around the top of my gloves and the bee suit. Don't get stings from my 'nasties' and the tape is cheap; have also abandoned nitriles in favour of Mr Sainsbury washing up gloves with long cuffs - about £3.50 a pair and they last years with care and because...

And there were little coloured pictures of Dutch(?) kids interleaved too so one could get a collection of them together and stick on ones bedromm wall. At least that is what I did.

More likely about the woman who swallowed a packet of seeds?

Vaping (sublimation) is really old hat. Been doing it for at least 13 years!! Note your dislike of Apiguard but it suits me fine.

Custard is quite nice too!!

I could do with a couple of docile and productive queens. Offers/recommendations please.

BigAshW trickling? Surely he should have got round to sublimation by now with 10 hives. Only ever used Apiguard in autumn (usually later than recommended without any repercussions) and oxalic sublimation after Xmas and have never had varroa problems. Lost 2 colonies in the last 13 years...

Back in 2009 I got this out.

It's the sort of thing I have been getting out of the stream that borders my garden for at least the last 14 years 'cos lazy bxxxxtds can't be bothered to dispose of things properly. Just one lot on one day of scavenging other peoples rubbish that I took to the tip 6 miles away. 😩😩😩

If I need more hive stands the local BUILDBASE merchant has a pile of suitable timber in various sizes piled in a corner of his yard that he is keen to give away. Made several over the years.

that one did the rounds in the 50s. There was another TOTP but can't remember it. Thankfully???? :rolleyes:

Got a bus pass?

Then recycle and get another suit?

Two digits modus operandi works best. With nitriles on of course!!!!

Yea ............................................but,but,but,but,but.