What did you do in the 'workshop' today

[Erichalfbee]

More than just well known, some would say a legend, especially when it came to queen rearing

@Spiney Norman I bought my first queen from Pete. He could talk the hind legs off a donkey. I phoned him one night at 11pm and got off the phone at 1am. His Twitter feed is still live and I have saved a few of his posts about varroa strips
One of our forum members featured him in a book, "Interviews with Beekeepers", along with other beekeeping legends (one posting here fairly regularly) .....

 

[Erichalfbee]

The latest iteration...

James

That is just so pretty, James

 

[Spiney Norman]

@Spiney Norman I bought my first queen from Pete. He could talk the hind legs off a donkey. I phoned him one night at 11pm and got off the phone at 1am. His Twitter feed is still live and I have saved a few of his posts about varroa strips
One of our forum members featured him in a book, "Interviews with Beekeepers", along with other beekeeping legends (one posting here fairly regularly) .....

Now you mention it, I do remember him being very talkative. But very much in a helpful and generous way.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I remember a member of my association who, convinced (I wasn't) he was queenless asked me where he could buy a new queen, it was at the end of the season and I knew that most breeders were sold out but that Pete had some so I gave him his number.
A month later I was chatting to said member and asking him how the colony was doing. Apparently, he called Pete, and after an hour's chat Pete had talked him out of buying a new queen, and now his 'queenless' colony had brood again and was bedding in nicely for winter.

 

[Ely]

@Spiney Norman I bought my first queen from Pete. He could talk the hind legs off a donkey. I phoned him one night at 11pm and got off the phone at 1am. His Twitter feed is still live and I have saved a few of his posts about varroa strips
One of our forum members featured him in a book, "Interviews with Beekeepers", along with other beekeeping legends (one posting here fairly regularly) .....

I'd phone to order some queens and end up chatting for ages about bees. I learned loads. Much missed

 

[The Poot]

I had made a warming cabinet to take two rectangular 20lb tubs….
The 60watt tube heater would get the temperature to 31c but no higher. I thought it had an internal thermostat which limited it.
But The blurb on the website didn’t boast it had a limiter. So I recently upgraded the cabinet insulation.
It now only snugly takes one 20lb tub. I added an Inkbird controller to the mix and can now achieve a controlled 40c.
As I only sell to one retailer, 20lb at a time, I think “that’ll do pig” (or Donkey, whichever you prefer).