Two types of orientation.

[Curly green finger's]

It was a lot rougher in the 1960's ... I was a student at Portsmouth Poly in the late 60's and the Ship Leopard (now a Boutique Hotel would you believe) you could guarantee would be stuffed to the gunnels most nights of the week with matelots who would inevitably end up fighting on the pavement ... There were scores of pubs down there .. although we preferred the Southsea seafront - The Timber Tavern, The Clarence, the Gaiety Lounge on South Parade Pier and the Old Portsmouth pubs such as the Still and West and the Coal Exchange as they were slightly more civilised than those on the hard. We also liked the pubs in Albert Road Southsea - the Gravediggers, the Bold Forester and the Festing Arms which nearly all had bar billiards and were more 'locals' and a little safer. There was so much choice in those days - most pub crawls really ended up like that !

My god!! You've got about Philip what a life you have had, I feel a bit gel living a sucluded life on a farm and always living in the country.(except my college days) in the 90s
I bet or more like you could tell me some story's over a beer or two.

 

[pargyle]

My god!! You've got about Philip what a life you have had, I feel a bit gel living a sucluded life on a farm and always living in the country.(except my college days) in the 90s
I bet or more like you could tell me some story's over a beer or two.

It all seemed quite normal at the time ... most old men (and women) of my sort of age will have similar experiences - we were the post war generation that became mobile, we had freedom that our parents never had and attitude that we could do anything. The world was getting smaller and smaller ... it was easier for us than any previous generations and in some ways a lot easier than those who came after us ... the world seemed less dangerous in some ways and we were not as bound by restrictions introduced that were intended to make the world safer for people. We also did not have the internet ... we had to go out in order to talk to people and socialise !

I learned a lot from sitting in a pub chatting over a pint or two ... and you can't learn to read body language via a keyboard and computer screen !!

 

[Erichalfbee]

It all seemed quite normal at the time ... most old men (and women) of my sort of age will have similar experiences

Yes...growing up in the sixties we were suddenly much freer than our parents' generation could ever hope for and lots took advantage

 

[pargyle]

Yes...growing up in the sixties we were suddenly much freer than our parents' generation could ever hope for and lots took advantage

I don't think I allowed my kids to have as much free rein as I had either ... the world had changed again.

 

[Erichalfbee]

I don't think I allowed my kids to have as much free rein as I had either ... the world had changed again.

No fear. We knew what we could get up to so made sure they didn’t

 

[Curly green finger's]

And it's even changed again since I was a teen in the early 90s.
The Internet, gaming, tablets, mobile phones.. I didn't have a mobile untill 1998 and it was a brick.
If you wanted to speak to someone, friends etc, the land line was used or you would ride your bicycle to there house.
I read somewhere that a 8hr day on a mobile or tablet, laptop is the norm these days.
Not every day but 8hrs.. What a waist..
He says when he's replying to posts on a forum that he spends alot of time on.
It's ashame that I cant talk to folk face to face sometimes.

I wonder in another 30 years what it will be like, I'll be 70 years old then.
Hopefully I'll live that long considering I've lost three members of my close family to the big c and it scares the hell out of me that I'll be next.

Ow Whisky tottys are lush and I don't like whisky.
Good night .

 

[deemann1]

My observation late Summer this year, suddenly aware there were a few bees in the air, I was busy doing other stuff at the time. It was a swirl of bees, looked like one of those dust devils, drifted across the apiary. It would have been a very small swarm, they headed towards a group of trees but didn't go beyond. I checked the canopy and no sign of bee activity at all so went back to the hives for a check. Plenty of activity around the nuc on the far stand and the date coincided with a possible mating flight.
They traveled about thirty meters and the whole thing lasted as long as it took to walk there and back. If I'd stayed by the hives instead of following the bees, I would have seen them all coming back.

I witnessed the very same thing in one of my apiarys this summer

 

[Murox]

And it's even changed again since I was a teen in the early 90s.
The Internet, gaming, tablets, mobile phones.. I didn't have a mobile untill 1998 and it was a brick.
If you wanted to speak to someone, friends etc, the land line was used or you would ride your bicycle to there house.
I read somewhere that a 8hr day on a mobile or tablet, laptop is the norm these days.
Not every day but 8hrs.. What a waist..
He says when he's replying to posts on a forum that he spends alot of time on.
It's ashame that I cant talk to folk face to face sometimes.

I wonder in another 30 years what it will be like, I'll be 70 years old then.
Hopefully I'll live that long considering I've lost three members of my close family to the big c and it scares the hell out of me that I'll be next.

Ow Whisky tottys are lush and I don't like whisky.
Good night .

Sleep well.
The thing is us humans are inherently social creatures; deprivation of physical contact for example is bad for you. A lack of food, water, and sleep is detrimental to us; similarly a lack of mutual affection and contact with others also has a bad effects on us.
We all need to increase our feelings of wellbeing in social environments of whatever sort, cyberspace is just one such environment. Its problem is that its deceptive as its virtual; we actually need the real thing. The freedom of riding a bike all over the place as a child, for example, is just an expression of that need, and of the need to explore and discover our “self” and connect with others. Circumstances may have changed, but our basic needs have not.

 

[beeno]

No I don't watch American beeks.
I've seen a queen this season take her maiden flight and alot of bee's came out of the hive almost swarm like but this happened on four occasions.
Biology books I've been reading one in perticular ' buzz about bees' Jurgen tautz

Why wouldn't foraging be interrupted when what I saw happened??
Was it not a maiden fliet? It definitely wasn't a swarming colony unless I missed qcs.. But I defo didn't on this occasion.

I seem to recall Jurgen Tautz hypothesising about mating swarms as in a large proportion of the bees accompanying the queen on her mating flights, but he did not have any evidence. What we now call cast swarms used to be called mating swarms in the olden days, presumably because they had virgins in them thereof the confusion.
What you saw IMHO were aborted swarm attempts where the mated queen or virgin/s were not ready to go with the swarm and as Jenkins says the bees then sheepishly have to return to the hive. Also, sometimes if you have large colonies the orientation flights can be a bit confusing unless you see them fly off in different directions. Funnily enough most of the time when a colony swarms the foragers returning go about their normal business and the ones selected to stay remain in the hive. But I have also seen a whole apiary in uproar with every colony fanning at the entrance because one colony had swarmed. With all that going on my first thought though would be a missed QC. They are very crafty sometimes encapsulating them in the comb and usually those will be missed by the beek.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Sleep well.
The thing is us humans are inherently social creatures; deprivation of physical contact for example is bad for you. A lack of food, water, and sleep is detrimental to us; similarly a lack of mutual affection and contact with others also has a bad effects on us.
We all need to increase our feelings of wellbeing in social environments of whatever sort, cyberspace is just one such environment. Its problem is that its deceptive as its virtual; we actually need the real thing. The freedom of riding a bike all over the place as a child, for example, is just an expression of that need, and of the need to explore and discover our “self” and connect with others. Circumstances may have changed, but our basic needs have not.

I Always love you analogys murrox

I slept like a log, hopefully this will give our six and Severn year olds a bit of fun... I can't wait to see there faces.
Don't quite know how father Christmas is going to get the quad down the chimney.. Will he make it shrink?

 

[Erichalfbee]

I wonder in another 30 years what it will be like, I'll be 70 years old then.
Hopefully I'll live that long considering I've lost three members of my close family to the big c and it scares the hell out of me that I'll be next.

I've managed almost
Modern medicine is wonderful so be healthy and you can largely avoid cancer and don't be scared. You can waste a lot of time being scared then poof! you're 70 and ill

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

What you saw IMHO were aborted swarm attempts where the mated queen or virgin/s were not ready to go with the swarm

In your opinion - but doesn't make it anywhere near fact, like Trump, you have no proof to back up your hypotheses therefore (thereof has a totally different meaning) another possible source of fake news

 

[The Poot]

I've managed almost
Modern medicine is wonderful so be healthy and you can largely avoid cancer and don't be scared. You can waste a lot of time being scared then poof! you're 70 and ill

You can’t use a word like “poof” anymore, Dani. The hate crime police will be after you.

 

[Newbeeneil]

You can’t use a word like “poof” anymore, Dani. The hate crime police will be after you.

To be honest Poot I spent a couple of weeks when I first saw your avatar thinking "that's a brave guy to use a word like that as his monicker"! My eyesight is not what it was........

 

[Erichalfbee]

You can’t use a word like “poof” anymore, Dani. The hate crime police will be after you.

Poof!!!!

 

[user 819]

I Always love you analogys murrox

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Don't quite know how father Christmas is going to get the quad down the chimney.. Will he make it shrink?

He will have to get the spanners out .

 

[Murox]

I Always love you analogys murrox

I slept like a log, hopefully this will give our six and Severn year olds a bit of fun... I can't wait to see there faces. View attachment 23377
Don't quite know how father Christmas is going to get the quad down the chimney.. Will he make it shrink?

Hide it in a haystack and go on a Christmas present hunt.

 

[Curly green finger's]

He will have to get the spanners out .

Now that would be a sight, what I'll do is leave a spanner set out side and St nick (me) will have to take the wheels of its only 80cm wide and I'm hoping I can get it through the back door.

 

[Curly green finger's]

I've only got hay bales... But could break one or two up.
What ever I do it will be an interesting task come Christmas eve

 

[Curly green finger's]

I've managed almost
Modern medicine is wonderful so be healthy and you can largely avoid cancer and don't be scared. You can waste a lot of time being scared then poof! you're 70 and ill

Im trying my best, 7 weeks without a cigarette now. After smoking for 20 years.
I had a health check before covid all seems to be OK. Blood tests and a check over.