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Definitely contact your local association. If they advise doing nothing until spring, apart from shoring up the dodgy leg, then all well and good. They may advise you to get some varroa treatment on and help you do it. If the bees have been left to their own devices, for getting on for two...

I use a mix of 1 kg soda crystals to 5 litres of water with a squirt of fairy liquid and store in a lidded bucket. Cleans hive tools, gloves, feeders - anything really. You can also add soda crystals when washing your bee suit.

Let's hope they don't get caught out by a sudden drop in temperature later this afternoon.

It is bright and 44 degrees today. I have 3 x WBC hives in the garden and they are all very active. Does anyone else have flying bees?

I have been keeping bees for three seasons now and from the start have used 14x12 frames. I am a slim, not as young as I would like to be and female. I have never found the frames to be ungainly nor too heavy. I was strongly advised by my course tutor and my mentor to go with nationals...

Thanks for giving me a belly laugh. It was the vision of your dog that did it. Hope he has forgiven you now.