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Supertouch Nitrile gauntlets. https://www.safetygloves.co.uk/supertouch-nitrile-n15-latex-free-washing-up-gloves.html Sting proof (well, almost!) and sensitive enough to do the necessary manipulations. Cheap too.

Update - 4 colonies now available and price reduced to £300

I have 6 thriving colonies of bees available for sale immediately. All headed by 2021 local queens. 4 are in Abelo poly hives, 2 are in Paynes poly, 3 overwintered on double brood, 3 on brood and half. All standard National. All treated for varroa with Maqs in early September and OA vap in mid...

I learned similar, but ... Caesar adsum jam forte Pompei aderat Caesar sic in omnibus Pompei inis at

Exactly the same here. Hold the faith, the warmth is coming. Maybe.

I bought a Burco to boil frames this year. Did 10. Sold it for the same price I paid for it. Add up the cost of the electricity, the cost of the soda, the time, the grotty jobness of it all ....quicker and cheaper (probably) to make up new frames, but recycle the wax of course.

I drilled 5-6mm holes through the plastic frame "into" the hive as drain holes, one at each corner. Works well. I have a few new ones with the notches but looks like I need to do the same with them!

I am on my 2 year anniversary today as well! Didn't realise how much thinking time, doing time, shed space, garden space (including the neighbours!) it would take up! It was warm then I recall!

Not my title!

Thought so re options. Thanks Dani. No laying workers. Don’t think I said there were. No laying anything in fact! I know there was a new queen in there from August and assume she had started to lay worker brood simply due to the large number of bees (9 or 10 busy frames) but by the time I looked...

Got round to shaking out the drone laying queen colony today. Gave them a while as it’s been so cold and to see if it might sort itself! No hope, but I knew that. Despite there being no sign of a queen of any sort, only drone brood, almost all sealed there was a huge amount of bees. Find it...

Checked some of my hives today. One seems to have a drone laying queen. She was a late supercedure last August. With no drone brood let alone drones in my other colonies it’s either merge ( assuming I can find and remove the queen) or shakeout. Apart from the obvious queen problem the colony...

There's a thought. Pump action honey dispensers. Someone have a word with Thornes.

Me too - in the 'Dod!

You did well to achieve a decent finish on wood that riddled with holes. Surprised it didnt collapse on itself. As a fellow turner I would say the finial is a bit tall for the box which being a bit rustic, could do with maybe some sort of knob on the end! However, decent job, I would be happy...

I use an old slow cooker and J cloths. Not got round to melting down the oval discs produced yet but they are fairly clean already, just a scrape of the base.

Mountaineering and rock climbing, cycling (on and off road ), wood turning, astrophotography, fishing (mostly kayak based for pike, bass and tope but also fly for trout and grayling, river bank for barbel). Used to run a lot but knackered ankle. Jack of all trades, master of none!

RTFM! How many times did I say that (or similar!) to former chemistry pupils?

Sadly not got the kit to do so ... but considering it as an option!

OK folks, made a schoolboy error yesterday. Attempted to make up a 3.2% apibioxal solution today and should have added 20g to 395ml 1:1 syrup. In a hurry, I did 395ml water and 395g sugar .... which is more like 650ml syrup! It did cross my mind to use just 395ml of the resulting syrup solution...