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...

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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...

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Well, the Autumn is really here now – dark at tea-time, constant rain, flooding. Or maybe we should just call it Winter and be done with it! So, as you can imagine,...

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So the last super of honey has finally been extracted and the main beekeeping season is finally over – as you can tell from the weather over the past few days. The...

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Well, it looks like the main beekeeping season is over, judging by the weather today – wet, windy, cold. Quite a contrast with what we’ve become used to, as it’s been a...

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So here we are at the end of July – the month that offers the honeybees their main opportunity for a honey harvest. Unlike last year, the weather has not only been...

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What a crazy month June has been this year! What happened to “flaming June”? Not only has it not been flaming but it has caused no end of mayhem amongst the bees...

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What a busy month this has been! Swarms by the bucketful – and not mine (so far!). Two chimneys, one roof, two clustered very conveniently on walls and one adopting an empty...

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I mentioned last month about my missing pictures and video from the previous month’s blog. Well, it turns out there wasn’t room in the Newsletter for all my words and pictures. I...

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Another month of warm (for March!), sunny weather and the bees are loving it! They are all working like billy-o to bring in as much nectar and pollen as they can to...

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