hi all, well as you'll see from the last date/time I posted, the wood took over our lives somewhat, I still had one national in the garden, but our assumption of visiting the wood once a fortnight went out the window, every weekend more like it, it's such a stress free place, lots of work getting it to a state that we could walk into it and camp, so the bees took a back seat, but last week I did an A/S and the bee keeping bug bit me again (excuse the pun)
I pulled the commercial hives out of the shed, fixed the bits that needed doing, and am just waiting on delivery of some extra frames and foundation, next weekend were going to start work clearing an area to place them, then see what happens