October has been a quiet month from a beekeeping point of view, with very little happening on the bee  front.  The bees are still out and about when weather permits but the...

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  So Autumn is upon us in earnest.  We appear to have gone from (perpetual) Summer to Autumn overnight!  The bees are carrying on regardless, however, and though the beekeeping season is...

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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...

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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....

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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,...

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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...

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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? ...

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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...

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As I write this month’s blog, I am looking out of the window at a lovely sunny day – so tempting for the bees (and me!) to think that Spring is on...

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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...

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