middle class beekeeping !?

[thurrock bees]

I were looking though the net when i saw this, what a load of c**p. Are we all middle class??




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8089911/Honey-boom-thanks-to-middle-class-beekeepers.html

 

[VEG]

Ahhh "the BBKA said"

 

[TREVOR HILL]

must mean ive gone up in the world

 

[Chris Luck]

Are we all middle class??

I am.

Chris

 

[milkermel]

Thats it the bees will have to go, no farmer will let me milk his cows if he thinks Im middle class!!!

 

[Gardenbees]

I wouldn't know - I've never read the Telegraph!

 

[Juststarting]

Another sweeping assumption. I wasnt aware of declaring my social standing when I joined the bbka!

 

[psafloyd]

It's a classic Torygraph article. Something and nothing, but better written than the Daily Heil and the Sexpest.

 

[beeboybee]

its ok..... we all keep bumblebees!!!!!!!!!!!!! apparently.

 

[huntsman666]

Oh what a shame!

Article is about saving the honeybee but shows a picture of the 'italian' Apis mellifera lingustica and not the bark naive Apis mellifera mellifera. Who needs to save the 'imports?'

They should have used Keith's excellent photograph of A.m.m. posted earlier today.

 

[hallshoney]

must mean ive gone up in the world

Does this mean one has to move down a social class if i join the bbka.

 

[madasafish]

Hmm..

I object to being described as "middle class".

Bunch of plebs..

Some of us have ancestral piles...





(and they hurt)

 

[RosieMc]

I don't remember putting my social status on my registration form to BBKA. What does the BBKA say about this? Or is it jouranistic ramblings?

 

[Busy Bee]

Well chaps, one must'nt spend to much time reading these flimsical printings, another sherry I tell you.

 

[RoseCottage]

Hmmm it must be true the newspapers would never lie would they?

On the links associated with the article is another one from 2009 which trots out the nonsense of collapse and states 1500 new registrations on BeeBase. If the conveniently round numbers are to be believed then very few of the many thousands of new beekeepers registered with BeeBase.

No doubt they were too busy laying out the newspaper for visitors from lower classes to stand on.

Sam

 

[Erichalfbee]

Are we all middle class??

Only if you have a Beehaus
I'm surprised there wasn't a picture of one in the article.

 

[Winker]

Does this mean one has to move down a social class if i join the bbka.

One has to agree

 

[psafloyd]

Only if you have a Beehaus
I'm surprised there wasn't a picture of one in the article.

I'd have said a Beehaus was upper middle class. I'm lower middle class and always have been.

 

[circe]

I must be the wrong class then - since the BBKA website revamp I am told I do not exist.... and they have no record of me..... despite having received 3 years' of past subscriptions - that said, I do prefer cider to sherry .....

 

[Erichalfbee]

I'd have said a Beehaus was upper middle class. I'm lower middle class and always have been.

Don't be silly, if you are UMC you would have a man to do bees for you