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Category Archives: Bee-keeping
Second hive roof “repair”
Despite the “excitement” of the morning, I was able to get a little done in the workshop today, planing down the timber for the sides of another roof, building it and fitting the internal battens. Didn’t quite get as far … Continue reading
Move, bees! Move!
I received a message this morning that the hives in one apiary site were in the way of the water company, who needed to get access so they could dig a large hole in an attempt to find out why … Continue reading
Beehive dead-out collection
I collected the kit from my dead-out tree colony this afternoon. As I lifted the roof off its sides fell off. It all felt a bit Laurel and Hardy 😀 I’d used some fairly tired hive parts though as the … Continue reading
First beehive roof repair finished
Not really a repair, more a complete rebuild given that the metal cover and the sheet of plywood underneath it were the only things that were worth keeping, but this morning I finished gluing/nailing it all together so now there’s … Continue reading
Memory Lane, 14th February 2023: Bees love the Sun
It may only be scraping 5°C outdoors, but the Sun is shining and bees are on the move, foraging for water in the condensation on the tank we use to catch rain from the roof of my father-in-law’s greenhouse. And … Continue reading
First roof replacement
This evening I finished gluing together the new sides of the first of four beehive roofs that I have to repair. It doesn’t look too bad I think, considering the lump of scrap that I started with. Hopefully tomorrow I … Continue reading
Visiting the last of my beehives for the first time this Spring
The closure of a local bridge to, well, almost anywhere really, meant that the shortest two alternative routes (at least for small vehicles) took be past almost all of the hives that I hadn’t yet visited so far this Spring, … Continue reading
Busy as a bee(keeper)
After getting through other stuff today I thought I’d push on with a few things in the workshop to try to clear a bit more space. First up was turning some old frames from which I’d recovered the wax ages … Continue reading
Super super
I went out to put a super on a hive this morning and to deliver a few (rather late) jars of rent. As I was suiting up two young girls, perhaps five and seven years old, ran to the gate … Continue reading
Beekeeping jobs backing up in the workshop
I’m starting to back up jobs in the workshop… I brought home another two roofs I’d replaced today so now I have four to be repaired. They all need new sides. I’m sure I have some offcuts of cedar gravel … Continue reading
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