Tobacco smoke

[Curly green finger's]

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Yes the children bought it, doesn't it stand for something I can't remember what the wife said?

 

[mbc]

I don't bother smoking nucs. You two are rather brave for not using any kind of distractions or cloth to keep them in the dark and stop so many bees flying around.
Even when you have a double brood and 4 supers, and your doing some serious manipulations.. Very brave indeed.

I reckon I use more smoke on nucs than anything else, those bloody lips don't half squash bees if you don't shift them away.
Well done on the non smoking, I'm on day 11, off the booze for a bit too.

 

[Amari]

It could be worse I could be worm food.. 10 weeks now not smoking.

Well done! I stopped age 40, (same age as you now I believe!) and was really addicted - kept patting my pocket to make sure the fags were there. Now 39 years on I've had no cravings for yonks. Just the opposite: I find cigarette smoke really offensive, and being a non-smoker I can smell it yards away.

My wife use to smoke (stopped when she met me) and is incredulous to think that she socialised with her clothes reeking of fags.

 

[Curly green finger's]

I reckon I use more smoke on nucs than anything else, those bloody lips don't half squash bees if you don't shift them away.
Well done on the non smoking, I'm on day 11, off the booze for a bit too.

I use a feather to move bees, but yes the lips on the maisemore nucs are a pain, it does make inspections take longer.
Our wooden nucs don't have the lip they over hand like a normal wooden hive, I prefer them for that reason.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Well done! I stopped age 40, (same age as you now I believe!) and was really addicted - kept patting my pocket to make sure the fags were there. Now 39 years on I've had no cravings for yonks. Just the opposite: I find cigarette smoke really offensive, and being a non-smoker I can smell it yards away.

My wife use to smoke (stopped when she met me) and is incredulous to think that she socialised with her clothes reeking of fags.

The same for me we have labourers who smoke at work and when I'm near them the smoke stinks I have to ask them to go and smoke else where.
I was wondering if i could have a designated smoking area like over in the next field.
I can't believe I use to smell like that.

Thanks for your story.

 

[bobba]

Neonicotinoids are a synthetic variant of nicotine.

It is well established that Neonicotinoids are bad for bees.

I doubt a few puffs of tobacco smoke are going to make your bees drop down dead, but personally I would chose another fuel source.

 

[beeno]

Well when all the first four at risk groups have been inoculated we can lift all our restrictions

Five.

 

[beeno]

I am reading Mysteries of Beekeeping Explained by Moses Quimby, published in 1853.

Quinby - for our students

 

[beeno]

Eternally grateful for the smoking bans in pubs and restaurants. Nice not to have the wash your hair after going out!

 

[Erichalfbee]

Five.

Ah yes. I forgot my thumb
But I did mean four

 

[Swarm]

I can think of some things far more offensive than the smell of smoke. I can remember one individual way back when I started work.
BODY ODOUR. A disgusting, sickly, stale smell. Once sniffed, never forgotten.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Neonicotinoids are a synthetic variant of nicotine.

It is well established that Neonicotinoids are bad for bees.

I doubt a few puffs of tobacco smoke are going to make your bees drop down dead, but personally I would chose another fuel source.

Interesting this I thought.

A Frenchman named Jean Nicot (from whose name the word nicotine derives) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 from Spain. From there, it spread to England. The first report of a smoking Englishman is of a sailor in Bristol in 1556, seen "emitting smoke from his nostrils".

Sir Walter Raleigh

The most common date given for the arrival of tobacco in England is 27th July 1586, when it is said Sir Walter Raleigh brought it to England from Virginia. Indeed, one legend tells of how Sir Walter's servant, seeing him smoking a pipe for the first time, threw water over him, fearing him to be on fire.

You learn something new every day.

Cannabis was common in Eurasia before the arrival of tobacco, and is known to have been used since at least 5000 BC. Cannabis was not commonly smoked directly until the advent of tobacco in the 16th century

History of smoking.
After talking about it, it has compelled me to look into the history a bit, im of now to read books on bee's and eat more mince pies and drink tea!.

 

[Curly green finger's]

I can think of some things far more offensive than the smell of smoke. I can remember one individual way back when I started work.
BODY ODOUR. A disgusting, sickly, stale smell. Once sniffed, never forgotten.

Forget work Steve, try living with teenagers.

 

[Swarm]

This was an office full of smoke, he was something else! The girls complained in the end and the remedy was to put him in the exec's office as he was on holiday.
Imagine his horror when he came back to work, kicked this bloke out of his office and sent him to stand in the street while the place was fumigated.
Someone pointed out on one occasion that his sweater was on back to front, to which he replied,
"I tipped food down the front."

 

[Curly green finger's]

This was an office full of smoke, he was something else! The girls complained in the end and the remedy was to put him in the exec's office as he was on holiday.
Imagine his horror when he came back to work, kicked this bloke out of his office and sent him to stand in the street while the place was fumigated.
Someone pointed out on one occasion that his sweater was on back to front, to which he replied,
"I tipped food down the front."


Didn't anyone think about putting a Tin of lynx on his desk maybe with some shower gel perhaps even raping it up In Christmas paper with a note saying here's an early Christmas present.

Here's a story, I use to clean pigs out before high school, cleaning the salaries with a spade wearing my school clothes and a boiler suite, no wonder I didn't have a girl friend until I went to college and very few friends at school, only other farmers that probably couldnt smell the pig muck, it use to stick to my clothes and hair, I would much prefer to smell of that than tabacco.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I can think of some things far more offensive than the smell of smoke. I can remember one individual way back when I started work.
BODY ODOUR. A disgusting, sickly, stale smell. Once sniffed, never forgotten.

we had one at the airport - Derek the goat. he had six white uniform shirts in his locker (to cover overtime shifts) at the end of the day, he would change back to civvies and put the worn shirt at the back of the row so it would have a week's 'airing' before being worn again. Like an elderly billygoat, some of the shirts were more yellow than white.

 

[Arfermo]

Ah yes. I forgot my thumb
But I did mean four

Are you sure you have one?

 

[victor meldrew]

we had one at the airport - Derek the goat. he had six white uniform shirts in his locker (to cover overtime shifts) at the end of the day, he would change back to civvies and put the worn shirt at the back of the row so it would have a week's 'airing' before being worn again. Like an elderly billygoat, some of the shirts were more yellow than white.

We had a guy ! Foot odour was his problem ! Sorry I meant our problem . He was a progress chaser which involved his wandering around the works chasing projects through all the processes.
you could smell his approach .by the end of the shift , his shoes had salt deposits on the leather uppers . I kid you not!

 

[Amari]

Interesting this I thought.

A Frenchman named Jean Nicot (from whose name the word nicotine derives) introduced tobacco to France in 1560 from Spain. From there, it spread to England. The first report of a smoking Englishman is of a sailor in Bristol in 1556, seen "emitting smoke from his nostrils".
Sir Walter Raleigh

The most common date given for the arrival of tobacco in England is 27th July 1586, when it is said Sir Walter Raleigh brought it to England from Virginia. Indeed, one legend tells of how Sir Walter's servant, seeing him smoking a pipe for the first time, threw water over him, fearing him to be on fire.

History of smoking.
After talking about it, it has compelled me to look into the history a bit, im of now to read books on bee's and eat more mince pies and drink tea!.

James l of England (Vl of Scotland) hated the stuff and in 1604 published A Counterblaste to Tobacco. Here is a quote:

Have you not reason then to bee ashamed, and to forbeare this filthie noveltie, so basely grounded, so foolishly received and so grossely mistaken in the right use thereof? In your abuse thereof sinning against God, harming your selves both in persons and goods, and raking also thereby the markes and notes of vanitie upon you: by the custome thereof making your selves to be wondered at by all forraine civil Nations, and by all strangers that come among you, to be scorned and contemned. A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse.

— James 1604[2]

 

[Erichalfbee]

Are you sure you have one?

That’s probably the reason