- Joined
- Nov 10, 2008
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- Location
- Wigan
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 6
Tried to pack them in this year .
Now July . bees still here . What does that say ?
VM
Now July . bees still here . What does that say ?
VM
... plus the wonderfull smell of smoke/wax combination in my car,
Definitely don't agree with that one - well not after my experience of approx 53 weeks ago!!! (look back to June 25)
I have a daughter with Aspergers. When I am with the bees I am not thinking about anything else other than the bees. It's an escape. After inspecting, I sit on the grass in front of my hive and watch them. Thoroughly absorbing.
I should also say that with a lifelong illness - bees make me feel alive, and that I can make a difference and ignore all those who say ill people are skivers and not suffering
All in the list except 7 plus other beekeepers. If you can ignore their right-wing extremist politics, they are very likeable, friendly, helpul people in the main.
My favourite part of keeping bees is the smell of brood comb and honey on a hot, blustery summers day and watching all the different coloured pollen arriving in a steady stream at the hive entrance. An hour of that and I feel totally de-stressed and rejuvinated.
For me, it's definitely the Beekeeping Forum.
The camaraderie, the crack, the wisdom and charity.
Yes, definitely that.
Dusty.
And becoming completely engrossed by the biology of the hive as a "super-organism", the pollination process in nature and macro photography.
And there is nothing more wonderful, relaxing and magical than lying under the bees' flight path, watching them come and go from the hive.
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