Well, what a month August has been! Rain, high winds, sunshine – the bees don’t know whether they’re coming or going! They do appear to have finished their swarming season at last...
Well, yet another manic month! The bees have loved it and whilst mine have been behaving as they should there has been a lot of activity swarm-wise away from my home apiary....
So, here we are at the end of June, another month gone by in lock-down, and my bees have never had it so good! The weather has been superb, in the main,...
Another glorious month of sunny weather, no road traffic and no planes in the sky. Lockdown has a lot going for it in my situation, though I know it’s tough on a...
So April is due to be the hottest April on record – hasn’t it been wonderful to see the sun shining again and have dry weather for almost weeks at a time? ...
My bees are really misbehaving at the moment. They’re totally ignoring the advice to socially isolate and are cramming themselves up close together in their hives during the cold nights and early...
Nearly February already as I write this! How many days until Christmas? The bees don’t care – they are working towards Spring. Every fine day, even with low temperatures, they are out...
So, that’s Christmas done and dusted! Just New Year’s Eve to get through and we can all get back to normality! As ever, we bought more food than we needed, ate more...
Well, it’s still raining! One wonders if it will ever stop or whether the heavens will eventually dry out. It’s fair to say that our well has plenty of water to keep...