You don't remember the summer of '86 then?
Lots of them. But never a year, as in the whole year (because, so far it has beeen unique) or the last year, as in twelve months .OK the summer months were OKish after May, but the autumn was differnet to the norm, the winter was short , spring arrived a month or more too early and then it returned to more like winter weather for two months and hasn't been sogood in JUne either.
The point of my post, if you had missed it, was that it is not really surprising, given our weather this year, that things are running differently. Lets face it, the OSR had never come into bloom so early and lasted so long, while yielding very little nectar until the last week - when the weather suddenly warmed. Def youneek!