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Barmy seems to fit?

This is actually the most appropriate time of the year to do it but not a day later if poss. But only do it when the ambient temperature is below 10c or less. Anything more and bees will still be flying.

Interested to see him flipping his bees with a paint scraper. I use one most of the time for splitting the boxes as it does less damage than a hive tool for instance when boxes are glued with propolis - as most are most of the time.

Yea - when you are 87 like me it gets a bit tough to do anything!! OK?

Hooper is about the best I think and edited another book with Roger Morse "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Beekeeping" ISBN 0-525-24243-0 with more than 500 illustrations if you really want pictures. Was $35 but about £60 now if you can find a decent one that hasn't had the coloured plates removed.

Burka won't suit you.

Recorded most of it on my HUMAX for later.

Too hot - just snoozed for 3 hours. :D :D

Tried this website https://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/sites/odbka Must be someone there? Patience dear boy!! :D

A Burka really won't suit him but he can but try I suppose

Got a a very old umpteen gallon 'Freegled' Burco wash-boiler many years ago, so I boil a load up from time to time with washing soda after removing the foundation retaining strip and then hose them all off after. Like new. Now worried about Burco boiler rustlers. EEK!!

Going to continue haunting us though?

Having lived through 87 of 'em I am sure that I won't be celebrating another one nearer the inevitable. :D :D

Damned sure I won't.

:iagree: that bees are not very fussy and can work almost everything out without human directives. But in the case of this young lady she was definitely 'up the creek' and going nowhere, and I am not interested in finding out what she is now doing, especially after telling me that she was unable...

Last year in a fit of magnanimity I offered to mentor a losing beginner some 20 miles away who had bought one working hive and umpteen boxes and stuff from a retiring beekeeper and then rushed out and snapped up hundreds of new deep and shallow national frames with wired foundation already in...

But do not live in a house so no spare bedrooms for more stuff? :D

Almost certainly will. :iagree: :iagree: :iagree:

Do what I did with him years ago and switch him off?

Well aren't you going to tell the thickoes on here what it was/is? Secret.