Ready, steady........

[Dusty Rhodes]

Wow guys and gals!

Overwhelmed by your welcomes, good wishes and sound advice.

(Of course, I guess I knew what the advice would be - just wanted someone else to tell me!)

No, I'm not Nic's dad or I'd have told the young whipper-snapper to clear off and tidy his room.

As for the photo of me with bees on the bum, it was taken at the local association evening when it was cold and windy. The young gels had taken refuge in the warmest place they could find out of the wind.


I do appreciate your kind welcomes and indeed have already learned a lot from the website. Not only about bees - but in my workaday role as psychotherapist. There's a whole conference in some of the strings!

Thanks.

 

[Nic Rhodes]

lol, that was your bum! Patty and John gave me a copy when I visited the other day!!

 

[HelenX]

One more piece of advice!

As already said - get your first bees either locally or by recommendation on this forum. Don't do what I did and get so impatient that you order in January from one of the companies who sell hundreds of nucs. The adverts sound brilliant - but the ones I bought locally are in a different league (and I actually got them before the early ordered, early paid for, more expensive, and less strong ones)

Do as I say, not as I did!

Helen

 

[luckydunny]

Time will fly as surely as your bees!!

"I do appreciate your kind welcomes and indeed have already learned a lot from the website. Not only about bees - but in my workaday role as psychotherapist. There's a whole conference in some of the strings!!

Hi and welcome from me. Started in June and going into winter with 3 colonies. I am not a patient person but the bees are teaching me thus!!

Hope you do mean strings but invariably watchout for some stings -( and I do mean from the bees)!!!