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Made up some syrup and fed the girls. (Didn't want to be too long as diggers just at the back of the hive and didn't want to disrupt the bees too much!)

:iagree: Lots of stuff I need to do, no suitable weather to do it in :-(

Please, please take some :) I've gardening and bees to sort out, so a deluge right now is kind of inconvenient ;)

We (my husband & I) did a course run by a not-so-local BKA before getting our bees. It happened that before we got them we also went to a couple of the local(ish) BKA group meets (more by chance than on purpose). We had tried, however, to get onto a reasonably priced course that wasn't too far...

Anyone wanting rain can have some from here if they want it! Needed to check on my hive and have had nothing but rain, rain and more rain. The 20 minutes of sunshine we did have yesterday I was 30 miles away in a meeting!

Yet another hobby is spinning, so I can confirm that you can happily spin with dog hair. I never had it that the yarn smelt of dog afterwards (and the dog it was from STANK when wet :ack2:) but that may be to do with cleaning it properly. Just a warning though, pure dog hair yarn is extremely...

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You've obviously never been to Birmingham then! ;)

I think everyone voted against nu-Lab before he could get it sorted ;)

Does that mean your bees are middle class as well then? ;)

Wonderful shots

After a hard morning's slog this has certainly lightened my mood. thanks guys :D

Hi Susan, Just to add, I know of a couple of hives at our local apiary where they know the queen is there (she's marked) but she seems to have gone off lay for the last couple of weeks (the more experienced beeks put it down to the strange weather this year, with the recent rubbish weather...

:iagree: only just starting (picked up the nuc on Saturday) desparately trying to hope I haven't just done this all too soon (despite reading about it all for 10 years and doing beginner course and being member of local(ish) group)!

Got one now thanks for offers Hi All, Thanks for the offers, but managed to get one locally. :cheers2: Hopefully it'll be OK Thanks again.

There was some mention on another forum that a very experienced TBH beekeeping had one of his hives build cross comb & the only thing he could think of was magnetic field (they happened to build it the same way that other nearby hives built their comb, despite the hive being oriented differently)

A lot of TBHs have open or mesh floors for the varroa to drop out (hopefully!) :D

Hi, I live near Dudley, so can collect from Staffs, Worcs & W Mids areas easily. Unconcerned about frames (& would just as happily take a package of bees & queen). Thanks