For a second I thought this was a thread about religious orders....
I was chatting with Paul O'Sullivan yesterday at Gormanston (Paul is a Dublin based beekeeping supplier) and he mentioned that he had completely run out of Kemble wax in national sizes. In fact he was completely out of all National wax yesterday afternoon. He mentioned that part of Peter's wax making kit had broken and had to be replaced which caused a hiatus in production. He had to source Maisemore wax to meet demand but I gather he has more wax coming from Peter Kemble now that he is back in production. There has been a big demand for wax over the past couple of months and that has affected availability. I ran out of shallow, wired foundation despite having stocked up over the Winter with a quantity that I had anticipated would see me through to 2015!