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One day I'll learn. I was being silly, my friend was inspecting his, generally, dopey bees while I was digging the allotment in a vain attempt to make it look less abandoned than it did this morning. Did I put a suit on when he asked for a second opinion? No I didn't. Unsuited I put my face right next the hive to take a closer look at the frame dangled for my view; wallop, straight to the throat. I now have two adam's apples.

One day I'll learn. *sigh*

Once again some fine upstanding pillars of the community answered the call and devoted a large part of their Sunday to their own community service order. What did they do to deserve this?!

The enormity of the task ahead is revealed by the continuing lack of action with the timber cut to make hive stands, the 15 polynucs still in their natural colour, and the promise of 48 National polyhive boxes and almost as many feeders, floors and roofs - once I can find the man with the warehouse ...

At the risk of incurring the wrath of the ghost of Rudolf Steiner and the entire anthroposcophy movement, I clipped seven queens yesterday evening.
I don't usually clip queens and last year I didn't have a single swarm but the swarming frenzy this year is making me nervous. There have been some in the Belfast area already - 4 that I know of. A guy from my bka lost a swarm 10 days ago and it ended up in his friend's chimney, - by coincidence very close to Ian Paisley's house. Can you imagine ...

Being a man of little planning ability, my dummies are quickly cut pieces of polystyrene insulation board. I really ought to paint them at least. One colony, roaring ahead perhaps partly due to drifters from the seriously weak one alongside, has decided to take matters into its own hands regarding the space they have available. What a racket from all that chewing going on! Pulling out the sheet didn't stop them.



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I quote as the letter was received:

"Martha and I were out spending her birthday money last week. We spotted the enclosed and Martha said we had to buy it and send it to Neil"

It's a Bracelet, one with squares of words/pictures with "Save" "the" "bees" split by by squares with a flower and a picture of a bee on them.

I'm wearing it, but I'm going to split it and put it on two of my new hives so my bees will always ...