Proposition - BKF 2011 Meet

[Busy Bee]

Thats us out the window over here!

Busy Bee

 

[psafloyd]

If it's land that you can park your caravan or tent, you can use one of my fields / meadows for free. Drinking watercan be layed on, but you would have to cover the cost of porta loos.
Plus I have some bees here and we're in the middle of the Thetford forest, so it's quite a nice location....

Brian

Portloos? How horrible. Just get one of these and you're sorted for the weekend...

Actually, a much more green alternative and certainly for number ones, if to use a straw bale. Some stately holes have been using these, particularly for the gents' urinals and the bale is then composted.

Great stuff!

 

[tonybloke]

SWMBO says 'better pencil that into the diary'
( the meet-up, not the crapper)

 

[Hombre]

Somerford,

I'm good until the middle of August, after which I am elsewhere.

Venues, Great Somerford or Frampton (on Severn?)

What size of deposit were you thinking of? I'm good to go.

Perhaps a new post with a venue and a date to shake off the noise of alternate suggestions that will only muddy the water.

 

[Somerford]

Hi Hombre

I agree. I have to approach the landowners over the coming week.

As regards dates, it is looking like the BH weekend at the end of August is becoming a possibility more due to the fact I need to fit in the setting up with work and the fields are being used mid August anyway.

I'll try and make sense of all my jottings over the next few days and start a new thread....but I would ask that if anyone still hasn't voted, to do so.

I would also be looking for volunteers to help....

....judge a honey show

....help do demos (hive opening, making a hive from scratch, grafting, doing an off the cuff flora/fauna walk or lecture, expert on varroa management, and possibly a lecture on queen rearing the Forum way ? !!!

regards

Somerford

 

[Poly Hive]

Queen rearing the forum way?

You are having a laugh aye?

PH

 

[Tom Bick]

Re honey competition people enter honey in unmarked jar no label.

The jar is registered and given a no 1 - 100 or a letter A – Z then placed on a table with all other honey jars.

Supply plenty of cocktail sticks and simple voting slip and everyone gets to taste the honey and vote on the one they think is the best.

I went to a bit of a beekeeping thing late last year and this system worked great especially the tasting bit.

 

[tonybloke]

I could do a presentation on wildlife in a reed bed at Burgh Castle (Norfolk)

also maybe do another on allotment law and management?

 

[Firegazer]

Somerford,
I'm still up for it and should be able to help out with the boring preparation bits as I'm fairly local.

Not sure I can do any lectures, unless you can try "Right, gather round and watch FG doing a hive inspection. Afterwards, there'll be a prize for spotting the most mistakes."

As feedback, I'd love to watch lectures and demos on grafting and queen rearing; spotting disease; spotting the queen (!); seeing a TBH up close; some microscopy that I could copy at home (nosema identification?); Hivemaker's Thymol preparation; anything by Hedgerow Pete (tea making?).

It would be great to have BBQ, drinks, loos, camping. I'm very keen on the campfire idea (check my name) and could bring along some logs for that - I reckon it could be really great to have a proper chat about a lot of weird bee stuff over a real pint, instead the virtual ones in the Beekeeper's Arms.

I think it will be a great occasion and we could grab a few quid off everyone to give to Admin for his forum leccy bill.

FG

PS Frampton can be tricky - last Autumn there was some nutter on a Quad bike doing about 80 mph in the car park! ;-)

 

[Somerford]

FG - I had forgotten about Microscopy !

....the nutter was someone else, mine was limited to 20mph

S

 

[MODNOD]

Somerford

You could have met me today had you looked out of your window,then again you may have and decided not to.

My dog was not impressed with your cat sitting on the bonnet of the rangy, but then my dog is not impressed with any cat.

Shame its the August B/H, we are away.

Look at hiring a pig roast, i know a bloke very close to you who may be able to supply the bacon.

 

[peteinwilts]

the guy next door can supply bacon, sausages chops etc!

 

[taff..]

depending on the date and how that fits in with our other commitments I'll be there


one thing that might help is stickers for people to wear with forum name and prefered name so that everyone has a clue of who they are talking to

 

[Headnavigator]

A trip to the mainland ,is it safe You got big roads and more than one lane to drive in. I feel travel sick already

How about a trip to the IOW sun , beach ,and bees lol

ok ok .....i don't think my partner will go for a bee camping trip.

Could have just written that myself. And bring your bees, you might never want to leave. Ooops, no, we're encouraged not to import!

 

[drstitson]

can't we get mark to set up one of the "donate to the forum" bars so that we can all club together to ship Finman in for the weekend (with or without his consent!).

 

[Somerford]

can't we get mark to set up one of the "donate to the forum" bars so that we can all club together to ship Finman in for the weekend (with or without his consent!).

What ??? Am I a bl**dy charity ? I think not ! Sorry Finman, you need to paddle your own longship over !

S

 

[Vergilius]

one thing that might help is stickers for people to wear with forum name and prefered name so that everyone has a clue of who they are talking to

LOL

Ben P

 

[Somerford]

Update time....

Well, update time....

I have had a very nice call from the landowner...he just wants an idea of the date to ensure it doesn't clash with any other use of the Showground and it'll be ours to use !

Oh, and PLEASE don't associate the proposed BKF meeting with the most read thread on the forum....I am not proposing it becomes a rallying point, the intention is to celebrate the forum, do a little beekeeping, share stories, trials and tribulations and put some faces to names.

Will update again soon....as soon as diary allows as a little busy at the mo !!

S

 

[louiseww]

The Isle of Wight is expensive to get to - we did the festival in 2008 - meg bucks for the ferry!
Louise

 

[louiseww]

The natural beekeeping group are doing something similar with camping and stuff!
Louise