Make your bally minds up!

[Brosville]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7808793/Middle-class-fad-for-bee-keeping-sees-doubling-in-number-of-hives.html

(mind you it IS in the Torygraph, home of the blithering eejit Delingpole, so.......)

 

[SixFooter]

I understand that this is the message the BBKA will be promulgating from now on.

Wow never used that word before!

 

[garethbryson]

Publicity can only be a good thing though????????????????

 

[Oakbear]

Well in theory both could be true.
Number of bees declining but keepers going up, especially if there's a significant drift to small home beeks.

I think the decline is likely to be reversing though, as it does seem to be getting more and more popular. My Association course has 80 newbs on it, and still plenty on the waiting list!

My feeling is they drag a story out about bees every now and then to fill a page. There's rarely anything current in such ariticles.

 

[MJBee]

The quote that jumped out at me was :-

"There is an element of people wanting to GROW their own honey"

Where can I get the seeds? I want to grow some honey too

 

[Black Comb]

I was told when I first started (by a BBKA member and before I got my bees) that beekeeping is a middle class hobby.

I'm 100% pure peasant stock and didn't know what the person was on about!

 

[victor meldrew]

Listen 'Old Boy' This used to be the case . Now along with golf ,riff-raff have been encouraged to the detriment of both pursuits

John Wilkinson

 

[Frisbee]

Listen 'Old Boy' This used to be the case . Now along with golf ,riff-raff have been encouraged to the detriment of both pursuits

John Wilkinson

And women too no doubt....tut tut....where will it all end?

Frisbee

 

[victor meldrew]

GOTCHA!!! .
You're the first one Friz LOL.
I think I've been sussed out .

John Wilkinson

 

[Frisbee]

 

[SixFooter]

As John Prescott said - we're all middle class now!

 

[Haughton Honey]

And women too no doubt....tut tut....where will it all end?

Women? What are they?

 

[victor meldrew]

Merley a man with a womb hence the name

John Wilkinson

 

[margob99]

Oops, I seem to have stumbled into a room full of Boy Bee Geeks