Yesterday, the car thermometer showed 17 degrees, but I suspect my apiary was more. Checked on the united hive and removed the surplus BB. Ladies happy and peaceable but no sign of anything other than stores. Some space for laying. Reluctant to delve too deeply. The other hive - just removed the now empty fondant bag: I had cut a hole which I left over the holes in the CB and inside an eke with a solid CB above. Covered the holes, but left the eke in case of any further feeding need. Bees happy, so I hope it will be a case of leaving them in peace until next year. Another pleasant, still day, today, so hopefully they will be foraging in the nearby ivy and/or sealing up interfaces of boxes etc.. Thankfully, very few wasps this year.
My roofs have built-in insulation, and being less than 500m from the coast with shelter from all winds we rarely get frost or lying snow.
Time for a bit of maintenance and dreaming for me.