I'm taking my first bbka module exam.

[Erichalfbee]

Morning, I've come to reply to my recent thread on taking the modules and it's been closed.

I can't see that the thread went sour and bad language was being used..
Im a little peed of about it..
It's not my fault theres bad calmer between the bbka and this forum.
Why should it of been closed.??

Thanks
Mark

Ok. I’ll re open the thread and merge it with this one and let you get on with it.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Oops

 

[Curly green finger's]

Ok. I’ll re open the thread and merge it with this one and let you get on with it.

Much appreciated dani thankyou.

 

[madasafish]

I did the Basic - 10 years after I started beekeeping.
The certificate is framed so the purchasers of my honey can see I am a competent beekeeper. (Don't all laugh).

Not ONE visitor or purchaser of honey has ever looked at it! And it is there in plain sight by our backdoor where we sell the stuff.

And the bees have ignored it as well.. they produced less honey this year.

I demand a refund!

 

[Erichalfbee]

There was a pretty libellous post about the bbka.

Where please?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Fai

I thought the message was clear. If you want to continue to discuss BBKA exams, please use the BBKA forum......

Faint hope
Have you looked in there recently?
At the moment there are 2 posts for today
7 users online and the most that have ever been on at any one time was 69
There are 248 looking in here
At least there aren't as many dead people on here

 

[Mint Bee]

Fai

Faint hope
Have you looked in there recently?
At the moment there are 2 posts for today
7 users online and the most that have ever been on at any one time was 69
There are 248 looking in here
At least there aren't as many dead people on here

last time I looked, they were allowing Nigel and sidekick Steve to post (both on usual form), so I'm assuming they are not as picking as before

 

[Curly green finger's]

Fai

Faint hope
Have you looked in there recently?
At the moment there are 2 posts for today
7 users online and the most that have ever been on at any one time was 69
There are 248 looking in here
At least there aren't as many dead people on here

Last time I looked it

Fai

Faint hope
Have you looked in there recently?
At the moment there are 2 posts for today
7 users online and the most that have ever been on at any one time was 69
There are 248 looking in here
At least there aren't as many dead people on here

I agree, surely there's no point keeping it running its a shame really.
69 that sound ominous.

 

[North End Bees]

Faint hope
Have you looked in there recently?
At the moment there are 2 posts for today
7 users online and the most that have ever been on at any one time was 69
There are 248 looking in here
At least there aren't as many dead people on here

Well then please don't turn them off by stifling a useful thread with disparaging remarks.
Members obviously want to talk about furthering their knowledge and it's not very helpful if they're discouraged by people who don't agree with their views.

 

[gmonag]

How on earth are we to have a discussion about anything if the mods just close threads or delete posts just because they don't follow their own dogmatic views? The dark side is here and now.

 

[Murox]

Well then please don't turn them off by stifling a useful thread with disparaging remarks.
Members obviously want to talk about furthering their knowledge and it's not very helpful if they're discouraged by people who don't agree with their views.

I think its not so much the views of others, rather its to do with the actual content of some of the modules and probably the presumption that folk are only interested in one way of doing things. for example vertical hives.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Well then please don't turn them off by stifling a useful thread with disparaging remarks.
Members obviously want to talk about furthering their knowledge and it's not very helpful if they're discouraged by people who don't agree with their views.

Struth!
it’s not about disagreeing with anybody

 

[Swarm]

How on earth are we to have a discussion about anything if the mods just close threads or delete posts just because they don't follow their own dogmatic views? The dark side is here and now.

The reason was explained, it's not dogma, this forum was created as the result of dogma.

 

[pargyle]

last time I looked, they were allowing Nigel and sidekick Steve to post (both on usual form), so I'm assuming they are not as picking as before

Probably nobody there to care ... they spent most of their time on here in a love in anyway ...

 

[Gilberdyke John]

For some people the exam route is the only option to expand their knowledge.
No learning about a subject is bad, how that knowledge is interpreted can be a bit dodgy in some cases.
Easy for some that are a little bitter to mock and scorn others that want to learn in this way.

The BBKA is an out of touch, selfish, self gratifying, over opinionated organisation full of people that can dislocate their elbows to pat themselves on the back. But it is there to be used by the members for their own needs, if that is doing modules for your own personal development then fine I wish you well. I have done the same as there was no other route to learn available to me.

It was funny at the BBKA conference a couple of years ago when I had mistakenly booked a dinner, it reached a point in the evening about 4 pints in for me that they suggested a toast to the BBKA. " ********, Bluster and Kissing Arse " I exclaimed in rather a louder voice than I had first thought. Half the room went silent and stared and the other half wet themselves laughing. The meal was somewhat amusing after that. I was sat next to a welsh guy that was a master beekeeper he spent most of the night wiping tears from his eyes and I told him how to fix his john deere tractor.

Now that's knowledge he would really benefit from having

 

[gmonag]

The reason was explained, it's not dogma, this forum was created as the result of dogma.

That is irrelevant. If this forum refuses to allow contrary views, or indeed criticism of the way it is run then it is just as dogmatic.

 

[Curly green finger's]

There is a lot to be said for practical skills, experience and gut instinct ....

Very satisfying when you call the right shot.

But a hair puller when it doesn't go Right.

I had much the same situation at home this season, with going to take two nucs from three colonys.
The third colony swarmed infront of my eyes.. It was my fault, I should of made the nucs up days before..
It all came good in the end and ended up with 4 qcs in an incubator and now have 4 mated queen's in 6 frame nucs.
All doing well.

I like it when some good comes from a beekeeper era.

 

[Erichalfbee]

But a hair puller when it doesn't go Right.

I had much the same situation at home this season, with going to take two nucs from three colonys.
The third colony swarmed infront of my eyes.. It was my fault, I should of made the nucs up days before..
It all came good in the end and ended up with 4 qcs in an incubator and now have 4 mated queen's in 6 frame nucs.
All doing well.

I like it when some good comes from a beekeeper era.

It’s even worse when you spend half an hour searching for a queen after finding queen cells only to hear the roar of a swarm lift off from a tree behind you the second you close up.

 

[Murox]

That is irrelevant. If this forum refuses to allow contrary views, or indeed criticism of the way it is run then it is just as dogmatic.

On the contrary, the relevance is the fact that this forum exists.
This forum encourages contrary views, it's almost obligatory as is challenging dogmatic points of view in all its guises.

 

[Curly green finger's]

It’s even worse when you spend half an hour searching for a queen after finding queen cells only to hear the roar of a swarm lift off from a tree behind you the second you close up.

Did you manage to retrieve the swarm dani?
I would of chased after it with a fly net or a fist up in the air..