He reckoned he preferred it to television ... I miss his humour and his PM's ... very sad when he passed away. Here's his hive:
we used to have interesting chats on and off the forum, he would often email me with interesting snippets.
I remember tales of bee poo on his Bentley?
He ran it on LPG and the garage where he filled the Bentley up was just in front if where he had his out apiary, so his inspections coincided with filling the car up ... As he got more poorly he brought all the hves home and had them in his garden and gradually reduced his colony numbers. He was still working on the camper van he had built up to a couple of weeks before he died ... I got a PM to say he was having to go into hospital again as they couldn't balance his meds ... and then another one to say he was out and feeling weak but a lot better ... and that was it. He never let on just how ill he was. Lovely man.
Yes ... but he could give as good as he got .... most of the time ! He did have time on his hands towards the end and I think sparring with Finnie kept him going !
yes, although the strength of his meds in the last few weeks meant that some of his posts got rather outlandish (although at least he had the excuse - unlike some we see here nowadays
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