Some things I found out

[For want of a better word]

What is the ...wet beekeepers ..bit?

Beekeepers who keep dripping on about the wonderful new hobby they have discovered and phone me at sunrise on a Sunday morning to ask if I would like to do an inspection after Chapel... on their two hives.... as we have not been into them for at least five days!

Yeghes da

 

[Tremyfro]

What is the ...wet beekeepers ..bit?

Beekeepers who keep dripping on about the wonderful new hobby they have discovered and phone me at sunrise on a Sunday morning to ask if I would like to do an inspection after Chapel... on their two hives.... as we have not been into them for at least five days!

Yeghes da

Ahhh..... I wonder why they would do that? I have always believed if you have livestock...then it up to you to look after them...if you don't know how or can't find out how....well it begs the question of why you have them. I wouldn't dream of calling you at sunrise to look at bees...so you are quite safe.
So you think I ...drip on about my bees...? Count yourself lucky we are not talking about horses...which are my big passion! Ha ha.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Ah the good old days of solid floors and matchsticks.
Much more is known now about the dynamics of a colony.

 

[Tremyfro]

Ah the good old days of solid floors and matchsticks.
Much more is known now about the dynamics of a colony.

It's good to remember the old days ....but modern ways are good too.
As I came to beekeeping only in recent times...I don't feel restricted by old ideas but it is interesting to read about them. A lot can be learnt from old books.
Today I finished the insulation in the walls of my latest long hive. It will soon be time to transfer the big colony....at the end of August. At the last count about 16 full frames of brood...but I am expecting that to reduce before they go into the long hive. For those who have long hives or similar...how many frames do you usually have at the end of the season?

 

[Erichalfbee]

I have a few old books and dip into them often. I have a copy of Wedmore and that is very very useful.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I have a copy of Wedmore and that is very very useful.

So like me then, one leg on your desk is much shorter than the others

 

[For want of a better word]

So like me then, one leg on your desk is much shorter than the others

Classic !

Mytten da

 

[Erichalfbee]

So like me then, one leg on your desk is much shorter than the others

That actually is absolutely hilarious. Really

 

[Tremyfro]

So like me then, one leg on your desk is much shorter than the others

That is really funny....
.....shouldn't laugh at book cruelty.....they are so defenceless since the advent of Google!

 

[B+.]

.....shouldn't laugh at book cruelty.....they are so defenceless since the advent of Google!

I doubt my wife has bought one (except textbooks) since she got her Kindle

 

[Tremyfro]

I doubt my wife has bought one (except textbooks) since she got her Kindle

My kindle died...sadly ....after I trod on it....so now I use my iPad. Tbh it's not as good as the kindle. Perhaps I will put it on my birthday list....

 

[For want of a better word]

These are Ah the good old days.... remember the days before the flowhive and when beekeepers were beekeepers!

YEGHES DA

 

[Erichalfbee]

they are so defenceless since the advent of Google!

Alphabet

 

[Tremyfro]

Ha ha ...the reason people talk about the ...Good Old Days...is because we are all so old!

 

[Erichalfbee]

remember the days before the flowhive and when beekeepers were beekeepers!

YEGHES DA

Some of us still are. Some think they are ..........unfortunately.

 

[BeeJayBee]

I doubt my wife has bought one (except textbooks) since she got her Kindle

Because it does a much better job of stabilising wobbly tables?

 

[For want of a better word]

Some of us still are. Some think they are ..........unfortunately.

I look forward to the day when my bees keep me!

​

Mytten da

 

[Gilberdyke John]

I look forward to the day when my bees keep me!

​

Mytten da

Sure ain't gonna be this year!

 

[Tremyfro]

Sure ain't gonna be this year!

Ha ha ...I had heard you get less honey with long hives....didn't know they meant ...NO HONEY...but then neither have any of the other hives. The bees ate the honey in my tower ....serves me right for boasting that I had finally made a stack with three supers.

 

[For want of a better word]

Ha ha ...I had heard you get less honey with long hives....didn't know they meant ...NO HONEY...but then neither have any of the other hives. The bees ate the honey in my tower ....serves me right for boasting that I had finally made a stack with three supers.

Three supers is the norm in these parts with well mannered native bees... Nationals.... now 10 is a stack!

Yeghes da