On 01-03-2018 20:37, Paul Honigmann wrote:
1) 40 hives stolen in Brackley a few days ago:
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/7e2a6b8e-1cd9-11e8-95c3-8b5a448e6e58 [1]
This is a large scale theft for the UK.
2) Snow: keep an eye out for snow blocking entrances, bees need to breathe.
3) In other news, we decided to move the hives on our local allotments to the
other side of the allotments a couple of weeks ago, due to increased
vandalism in the area: we wanted them less visible from the road. That put
them near some neighbouring houses, and one neighbour is raising endless and
poorly informed objections, to the point that the allotment committee is
considering discontinuing bees at all. Negotiations continue. One of the
allotment committee produced a rather interesting document though, attached -
the last part is all about honey but the first part has some nice examples of
_why_ the law is as it is.
Hope you are all warm and cosy,
Paul
