WOO HOO...Batten down the hatches!

[Tremyfro]

Wicked gales here today...one moment it's sunny and dry...the next you can see it rolling up from the Bristol Channel. Hail, rain, wind. The gusts are very strong. Everything in the garden has been rearranged.....just been out during a quiet spell to add straps to the empty long hives. The Bee Barn door won't shut as it is swollen with all the rain!. My stack of supers has been blown over.....Grrrrr....and one of them is now broken.....even more Grrrrr......
So a quick rearrangement of things inside the Bee Barn ....OH tools are OUT...and my supers are IN.....
He He.....a few runs with the wheelbarrow sorted it out!
Dogs are going mad...barking at everything which rolls past the window!
I will need to stick the super back together...anyone know the best glue for polys?

 

[Hivemaker.]

...anyone know the best glue for polys?

...uhu.

 

[Tremyfro]

Uhu? I expect I will need to use some bamboo sticks too ....to stabilise the corner.

 

[Hivemaker.]

Uhu? I expect I will need to use some bamboo sticks too ....to stabilise the corner.

Uhu...http://www.paynesbeefarm.co.uk/polystyrene-repairs-and-maintenance/uhu-polystyrene-glue/

or from...http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UHU-POR-A...M-EXPANDED-POLYSTYRENE-40g-50ml-/300864645602

 

[Thymallus]

..anyone know the best glue for polys?

UHU POR is the recommend one for polys. If sides are split apart add a few dowels to provide a bit of extra strength.

 

[Into the lions den]

I will need to stick the super back together...anyone know the best glue for polys?

We just use weatherproof wood glue AND long nails, mainly to hold it in place until the glue is set through and through (talks surprisingly long).

Annular nails are best if you can find them.

 

[stewart carnan]

Glue for poly hives

Try no nails out the pound shop the tube should have for use on polystyrene on it put a liberal amount on both surfaces and squeeze together wipe off excess apply a weight and leave for a bit longer for the glue in the middle to cure holds like a rock.

 

[Obee1]

It's not quite so bad here - but forecasts of the coming bad weather got me rushing over to my one hive that still had a feeder on it in order to tuck it up for winter. I decided to raise the hive from very close to the ground onto some railway sleepers. Double brood - full of stores - all alone - lifting whole hive out of question. So I lifted the back to slide sleeper under. Then lifted front. Sleeper wouldn't slide under so kicked it a bit. Oops. Bees came boiling out of the entrance. Covered my veil and omg I could feel a bee crawling on my neck. My veil had been breached! No idea how many in there. No one to ask. So many bees on front of veil that removing it was impossible.
Looking on the bright side I only got one sting. On my neck. Discovered later that despite very careful zipmanship the velco either side of the zip at the neck had a very small curled corner after being washed. When I fixed the top tab over it left the tiniest little gap - almost impossible to see but just big enough for a bee.
Hopefully that really was my last sting of the season!

 

[Plenty of honey]

Has anyone seen the long range forecast, the "el Nino' has been running even stronger that it was in 2011 and according to the forecasters its predicted to give us pretty atrocious weather starting from around January!!
We could do with some cold, i have got barn owls mating at my place, daffodils well up, winter viburnum in full flower and Mahonias finished flowering !! all Bonkers!! I hope its cold, not storm after storm!! thats depressing!!

 

[Hivemaker.]

Has anyone seen the long range forecast,

Like this ...

He said: “It is likely to turn significantly colder from mid October onwards.

“This is likely to bring the first significant snow of winter above higher ground in parts of Scotland and potentially to some well-elevated parts of Northern Ireland.

“Some potentially wintry showers could develop in some other parts of the country during the evening or overnight when temperatures will dip to some quite chilly values with the strong influence of some cool northerly winds.

Mr Madden said temperatures will continue to plummet below average through November bringing widespread snow.

He said: “Wintry conditions will begin to take more of a stronghold and become the more prominent feature throughout much of the month, and we can expect a much colder than average November with a below-average Central England Temperature this year.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/611100/Winter-2015-Heavy-Snow-record-cold-weather-forecast-UK


Or the latest from the Met office.

UK Outlook for Saturday 28 Nov 2015 to Saturday 12 Dec 2015:

This period is likely to remain rather changeable with an increased risk, compared to average, of windy or stormy conditions. Frequent bands of rain are expected to move across the UK from the Atlantic, these interspersed by clearer, showery interludes and perhaps some drier spells, particularly in the south. Northwestern parts are most likely to see the heaviest and most persistent rain, as well as the strongest winds, but many parts of the UK may also see gales at times. Overnight frost is likely during clearer interludes. There are likely to be large day to day variations in the temperature, with milder, wetter spells interspersed with colder, showery or drier spells, although overall it should average out at slightly above normal for the time of year.

Updated at: 1337 on Fri 13 Nov 2015

 

[Plenty of honey]

Well that's clear then!!

 

[bpmurray]

Like this ...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/611100/Winter-2015-Heavy-Snow-record-cold-weather-forecast-UK

Ha-ha - Exacta Weather only exists to give headlines to newspapers, providing them with "plausible deniability" for the forecast.

For legit weather, try the Met Office or http://yr.no

 

[Thymallus]

For legit weather, try the Met Office

They'd be the ones who said there would be no gales in 1987?

 

[Hivemaker.]

For legit weather, try the Met Office

You mean like I already did in post number 10.

The latest from the Met office.

UK Outlook for Saturday 28 Nov 2015 to Saturday 12 Dec 2015:

This period is likely to remain rather changeable with an increased risk, compared to average, of windy or stormy conditions. Frequent bands of rain are expected to move across the UK from the Atlantic, these interspersed by clearer, showery interludes and perhaps some drier spells, particularly in the south. Northwestern parts are most likely to see the heaviest and most persistent rain, as well as the strongest winds, but many parts of the UK may also see gales at times. Overnight frost is likely during clearer interludes. There are likely to be large day to day variations in the temperature, with milder, wetter spells interspersed with colder, showery or drier spells, although overall it should average out at slightly above normal for the time of year.

Updated at: 1337 on Fri 13 Nov 2015

 

[Hivemaker.]

They'd be the ones who said there would be no gales in 1987?

And a barbecue summer in 2012.

 

[Thymallus]

And a barbecue summer in 2012.

Yup, them.

 

[Erichalfbee]

They'd be the ones who said there would be no gales in 1987?

Do you know.....I slept through that and we had two trees down in the garden and trees down along the road.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Do you know.....I slept through that and we had two trees down in the garden and trees down along the road.

Isn't gin a wonderful thing

 

[pargyle]

We've been very lucky here on the Costa del Fareham ... it's been a bit breezy but nothing to shout about. Still 10 degrees outside when I got home from work at midnight ... I have a Hydrangea in full bloom in the garden .. absolutely not what it should be doing !

 

[JWF]

My strawberry plants have been flowering again - no fruit though!