New Years Eve!

[rockdoc]

I have to say I was surprised to find this little girl from my hive happy on the coronella after a night down to minus 2.
Hope everyone has a bountiful New Year with lots of honey.

 

[abm]

For the past 2 months, i've been having a spoonfull in a glass of beer most nights..... including tonight.

Cheers all............ and ladies of my hives.

 

[Dishmop]

Best wishes to everybody and their bees.

I'll settle for a year thats better for me than 2014 has been.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Best wishes to everybody and their bees.

I'll settle for a year thats better for me than 2014 has been.

I'd like 1969 again please
Happy new year everyone

 

[user 3509]

Happy New Year to everyone.

 

[pargyle]

For all you beekeeping First Footers ...

"Old Year out, New Year in ... please will you let the lucky BEE in ..."

(Perhaps a jar of honey rather than a lump of coal in return for the traditional wee dram ...)


Happy New Year everyone ...

 

[whoosling]

Happy New year beekeeping forum friends - thanks for putting up with another year of silly questions and giving me such good advice​

 

[user 6228]

For all you beekeeping First Footers ...

"Old Year out, New Year in ... please will you let the lucky BEE in ..."

(Perhaps a jar of honey rather than a lump of coal in return for the traditional wee dram ...)


Happy New Year everyone ...

its a piece of food AND the coal...

 

[alldigging]

its a piece of food AND the coal...

Is it not a coin, piece of coal and something edible?

 

[user 6228]

For all you beekeeping First Footers ...

"Old Year out, New Year in ... please will you let the lucky BEE in ..."

(Perhaps a jar of honey rather than a lump of coal in return for the traditional wee dram ...)


Happy New Year everyone ...

its a piece of food AND the coal... symbolising good luck in food and warmth



so perhaps


honey and Recticel


Happy new year to you and yours

 

[user 6228]

Is it not a coin, piece of coal and something edible?

maybe

 

[alldigging]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-foot

More!

The first-foot usually brings several gifts, including perhaps a coin (silver is considered good luck), bread, salt, coal, or a drink (usually whisky), which represent financial prosperity, food, flavour, warmth, and good cheer respectively

 

[user 6228]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-foot

More!

The first-foot usually brings several gifts, including perhaps a coin (silver is considered good luck), bread, salt, coal, or a drink (usually whisky), which represent financial prosperity, food, flavour, warmth, and good cheer respectively

I' was just remembering what my father was shoved out the door with... I forgot the drink...
Drink food and coal... is what i now do.
Down here in the heathen South I will be the only one in the entire street.
Aah the days when each house had laid on a spread for the first footers...

But then I'm from the "Keen wolfs meadow" in the north

 

[Erichalfbee]

Happy New year, everybody who has put up with me this year, especially.

 

[pargyle]

Is it not a coin, piece of coal and something edible?

I've been swindled by my family for the last 40 years ... piece of my own coal is all we usually get !!

 

[rockdoc]

I'm with you DerekM. I suspect I will also be the only one doing first footings here. Whatever you are supposed to take out and bring in, lets hope for a low varroa and nil shb year in 2015.
Cheers All...mines an Edradour

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

We sing the new year in here in Wales - a tradition that's dying out fast, when I was a kid I could earn more in one night (and early morning new year's day) than my father could on a good week on the buildings.
There'd be groups of us boys (girls frowned upon as being bad luck - same with light or ginger hair) targetting the hot spots first (house parties were a goldmine if you could get there bang on midnight, then pubs and clubs). In fact, I don't remember any Christmas carol singers - just the new year singing.
The only ones who do it now are my late cousin Alun's sister's family (anything for a bit of cash) Alun and I were the top earning singers, other lads would kill to be invited to accompany us! but it's not right her kids are twins. blond and ugly (and one's a girl!!)

 

[REDWOOD]

Happy new year everyone