what you need peebles is a goat three chickens( with heads on for now) one trouser leg rolled up and a pound of whipped cream. ha ha ha ha ha ha
seriously what i have done is dropped a letter explaining who and what I am to these people listed below localy to where i want to work, a couple of cards in each envolope helps aswell, I work away from home so took advantage last year to advertise at work and brought two swarms home from newbury aswell as birmingham
At work , i stick up posters in the canteen, bee swarms colleted
Allotment on the sheds, I also collected an estate agents sign and used the white plastic to advertise on the allotment fence.
The police, yep Mr. plod gets quite a few phone calls durring the season
The fire Brigade station, several in my area and they all have my details
socsial clubs, schools collages, gyms, judo club,any notice board I can find realy
The council, I am on a list at several departments as they never speak to each other and they all all get phone calls, Enviomental department as a general rule deal with most enquiries but so does the main reception ( card on wall near lady on the phones) also try the parks department, the allotment department the socsial servives dept. and any others that you can think of
all this advertisement will produce lots and lots of phone calls from near hysterical people what you have to do now is learn to screen the calls, otherwise you will get so much agro that you spend a fourtune in petrol for nothing
a classic case works some thing like this.
client ,bring bring" hello" " help i have a millons bees attacking a tree in my garden, the kids are screaming blue murder the house is going to fall over . ect ect ect"
me, "what sort of insects are they , bees or wasps"
client " flying ones" "millons of them, they look like the killer bees i have seen on tv, they are about a foot across and 18 inchs long and are blue with pink spots"
me " ok where are they "
client " outside eating a tree, and they look to be eying up the pet dog"
me, ok dont panic , just shut the doors and windows to the back garden and I will pop over after work"
Client " thats to late by then they would have finished eating the tree used it as a battering ram and eaten two of the kids by then
and the conversation just goes on and on
the other thing that happens is that the council, police, fire will use you to deal with any calls relatting to insects as your a bee keeper and there fore it would not cost them any time or money to send you instead of a member of staff
a classic one last year is i went over to an old couples house as they had a swarm of biblical proportions in there bathroom and were unable to use it, i turned up spoke to the owners asked for my £25 and went off to the bath room collected to TWO BUBBLE BEES and left, go figure that out
Needs two to control
and his details are on our website.
