a book idea

[hedgerow pete]

here i am in the caravan away at work, yes i have just taken a massive amount of drugs and drink and i have this crazy idea,


if i was to go through each question asked and then edit the answers and then print it all off i would have one of the best , up to date and most comprhesive bee books ever writen.

if you think about it in stead of a list of bee chapters we could have a list of bee questions.

with the large influx of newbee's coming in i would make a millon by the weekend. yes there is the slight issue of 6 millon messages to read through and copy right laws and printing and every thing else you lot can think of , but the basic idea of a bee question answer book from the forum is a good one it just needs someone to work out how it can be done.

what do you lot think.
pete

 

[MrB]

Good luck

Oh, and keep taking the tablets

 

[Tom Bick]

I think you are the only person for the job Pete.
Open it to the forum and you know what will happen things run by committee dont tend to work it needs a man with your commitment dedication stubborn resolve to get a job finished.

ps I bet the caravan is spacious compared to my corridor.

 

[davethegas]

Gotta be honest Pete, if you thought you were talking out of your #rs¢ , due to copious amounts of D & D, then your #rs¢ talks great sense. Quality idea. If the collective brainpower on the best forum can't produce a best seller then what can??

 

[wilderness]

Hi Pete,

You've been very quiet recently

Somerford has already suggested something similar http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showpost.php?p=59189&postcount=1

I still think a wiki would be useful.

 

[jimbeekeeper]

Pete Most people just play cards in the caravan!

Problem I see is yes you write a book, but then it is out of date!

Forum moves and grows.

But have a nother Drink any way.

 

[ENZO]

Hello Pete,
Well someone has kind of beat you to it, I have a book on my shelf called "A Thousand Answers to Beekeeping Questions" by Dr. CC Miller, OK it's from 1923 but a lot of the info is still relevent to the small time beekeeper

Good Idea in concept though.

Enzo.

 

[m100]

There is a similar questions and answers book written quite recently by someone in the Devon or Cornwall BKA. Can't recall the title though.

 

[hedgerow pete]

thats a good point about the book in print going out of date so why not have it on line, as each thread dies quietly we just edit all of mt rantings out of it and the shove it in the book /web page thingy

 

[PeteS]

Excellent idea but would be better online as it will be easier to keep up to date. As previously mentioned as soon as you print it it's out of date. Now where did I put my iPhone Application development book?

Pete

 

[jimbeekeeper]

just edit all of mt rantings out of it

Can we have a book/ web page thingy of JUST all the rantings? That would be fun.

 

[davethegas]

Or all of admins deletions, or a "Grumpy old" for beekeepers. Now that would be a hoot!

 

[hedgerow pete]

you cant have a book called the rantings of hedgerow as it would take up to much computer space in the internet

 

[Heather]

Hedgerow- you are a beginner Too nice... I can give lessons in rant
When I read about the EU and eggs this morning I RANTED- and am with the chap who will throw the eggs at the official who mooted the suggestion of selling in 10's and by weight.
LEAVE US ALONE EUROPE. JUST .... OFF