The WEATHER in the Apiary today

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UK weather: Britain to bake on hottest weekend of the year with temperatures soaring to 23C ... Mirror

Get the bait hives out?

Yeghes da

 

[Fritillary]

UK weather: Britain to bake on hottest weekend of the year with temperatures soaring to 23C ... Mirror

If that's what the Mirror says, the Express must surely have us in acute danger even in our sitting rooms under wet sheets.

 

[colinc]

Ha ha I was told we were to expect late snow next week......
.......only in the UK........!


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[deanrpwaacs]

There is a flow on . Drones and play cups seen . Bait boxes out . Bring it on .

 

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Easter Saturday.... 17 inspections.... 15 queens marked.... dripping in 17 degrees in the Sun

Last years crop of HoneyCider just ready to drink..............

Yeghes da indeed!!

 

[enrico]

Cold wind here. They are flying when the sun comes out but definitely not warm enough to inspect.
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[alldigging]

We had some blue skies and a little sunshine but it was still too cold to do anything with the bees and it's rained a couple of times.

 

[Erichalfbee]

12˚ cold wind
Bees out but not in shirt sleeves
Now at nearly 7 the wind has dropped and the sun is out for a lovely evening

 

[JWF]

16 degrees and mostly sunny this afternoon down in sunny Herne Bay.

Had a scoot through my colonies and found that I've lost a queen around a week ago. Oh well, at least that will stop them swarming!

 

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Felt very close and swarmy weather this afternoon... will have to dig out the old skep and other collecting kit... the public just love a bit of theater!

Nos da

 

[Millet]

It turned black here earlier with rain and hail and a cold northerly wind.

 

[Briarfield]

Not been to the apiary yet, but on the train from London to Yorkshire we went bought very dark patch in Notts.

Nice and bright in Yorkshire (of course) it being God's Own...

Very mixed OSR to look at. Some hardly in flower at all; is that spring sown?

 

[Millet]

Not been to the apiary yet, but on the train from London to Yorkshire we went bought very dark patch in Notts.

Nice and bright in Yorkshire (of course) it being God's Own...

Very mixed OSR to look at. Some hardly in flower at all; is that spring sown?

I have never seen it sown in spring, it normally gets sown around September, maybe the Oil seed rape you are seeing is different varieties.

 

[YorkshireBees]

I have never seen it sown in spring, it normally gets sown around September, maybe the Oil seed rape you are seeing is different varieties.

I have, a couple of years ago one of my field apiaries was in a field of winter sown OSR and I was just finished removing and extracting the supers from that when the field across the road burst into flower with Spring sown OSR.
Speaking to the farmer whose field I was in he said that due to the wet winter / weather we had a lot of other farmers had given up on the winter sown OSR as it had rotted / not germinated and sown again in Spring.

So far this year all the fields of OSR I have seen appear to have been sown last Winter. Again they vary in amount of flowers atm.

 

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The A388 and A390 reeked of Mazola this afternoon... in the Sun the temp hit a high of 17 degrees.......
If that is a cold front... bring it on !

Yeghes da

 

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RAIN.... good for the garden... bees will have to wait!

Yeghes da

 

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Rain and in my heart today
Kissed goodbye to my faithful collie Kelp hound Pip

RIP
We shall meet again in some better place
NOS DA

 

[Millet]

Rain and in my heart today
Kissed goodbye to my faithful collie Kelp hound Pip

RIP
We shall meet again in some better place
NOS DA

Sorry to hear that, folk who do not keep pooches will never know the hole they leave in your life and the grief it causes when they pass away.
RIP Pip. and keep your chin up.

 

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Sorry to hear that, folk who do not keep pooches will never know the hole they leave in your life and the grief it causes when they pass away.
RIP Pip. and keep your chin up.

Thanks M
I will tell my 10 year old son who has Autism that it rained allday today because God was crying for dear old Pip.
I will miss her... has slept by my bedside for the past 13 years.

Even the mad Springer Spaniel and our Cornish Collie seem to miss her already.

Nos da

 

[Erichalfbee]

So sorry hoppit
A year since I lost my collie and still miss him so