I'm expecting a rainy Feb and March too :p.
The delay is thanks to being occupied on a gainful project in the darker months which is going to fund the next phase of bee empire building. Yup, I was made redundant about a year ago to the day and decided to go for it. Roughly a threefold increase in stocks in that awful summer last time. Could have been about fourfold in a better mating season. 9 overwintered last year (2014-2015) and 12 purchased from two forum members -> about 60 now. Fingers crossed of course. Hoping for another threefold increase this coming summer, with current plans for 90 full boxes and the rest in poly nucs for propagation and sale.
Your Tacwise, John, was great while it lasted (thanks!) but had a terminal jam in the nozzle that I couldn't fix and the new one seems much better behaved.
I recognise SDM's indoor painting and retreating to bed to hope they'll be dry in the morning. Before long I hope to use a friend's under-used garage to scale up a bit. One of my very kind bee hosts is planning building me a workshop and honey house before the season gets too advanced so things are looking good for the future.