Got my first colony at the start of July, second came along at the end of August. Since May i've been working with two other beekeepers and a mate who got a Nuc in May. I've had a bit of an interest in Beekeeping for as long as I can remember, reading bits and pieces and chatting with folk I worked with who kept bees etc. but it was only when my mate got his bees and I had a chat with his mentor - a chap named Tom Canning who knows Joe well - that the subject of me keeping bees came up. After the first time I talked to Tom he announced "I think you'll be keeping bees" and that was it!!