Hi Helen
I think I am free on either date, and look forward to it!
Mary
On 19 Jul 2018, at 09:39, alisonjenner (Redacted sender "alisonjenner" for
DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Helen,
Thanks for your invitation. At the moment we are still talking about planning
our holidays so I may be able to do either - or neither - date you suggest.
Sorry for being vague!
Let me know which one you settle on and I’ll confirm if we are still at home.
Regards,
Alison
On 17 Jul 2018, at 12:06, Helen Nunn <helenmaynunn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Paul et al
I'd be happy to offer a get-together at our place (Derwent Avenue,
Headington, Oxford) on an August Saturday, eg either 4th or 18th, 2.30pm for
a cuppa, cake, and a wander up the road to our allotment and two bee hives
which are Warre-version-TBHs. If people would like to respond with their
preferred date, we'll settle on the most popular!
Helen
On 16 July 2018 at 21:57, Oxnatbees <oxnatbees@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all
yes I was thinking things are v quiet on this mailing list too. My bees are
just happy and doing their thing, no problems, and it seems no one else
with bees has problems. Beats me what they're foraging on, it's dry as a
bone out here and I don't see anything significant in flower. But in
previous years when they've had no forage you could tell because the number
of flyers was minimal, maybe one a minute, whereas this traffic is as busy
as any I've seen.
Swarm numbers down 66%? I can believe that, I only collected half what I
did last year (6 not 12) and my own hives only threw out 2 swarms and a
cast between 5 established colonies. Normally by now our mailing list is
alive with questions like "what is up with this cast I hived a month ago"
but... I guess those swarms that were caught, thrived.
Similarly - all 7 feral colonies in my village are going strong but the 8th
appears to have been poisoned by the householder shortly after being
recolonised this year (presumably by a swarm I missed).
We ended swarm season - I think we have to admit it's over now - with
several bee-less members who were top of the list for the next ones;
unheard of.
I apologize for not being in your inboxes more and not organising Events.
My life is somewhat disrupted by the addition of my aged in-laws to the
household, after they had a series of serious health problems. We squeezed
them in and for a while had a bed downstairs. I feel there should be a joke
here about merging two colonies... This rather cramps opportunities for
meetings here, though Gareth has kindly offered a visit to his apiary (To
Be Arranged). Perhaps someone else can offer a visit to their place eh? Eh?
Eh?
We looked into the Bee Farmer visit but, it Ain't Going to Happen. When we
finally got one on the phone it became clear there is no way they are going
to show strangers where their hives are, especially after the theft of 40
in Oxfordshire last winter.
One thing coming up is, you may recall former member Helen Jukes - we had
several meetings at her house and viewed her TBH, which Jack took over when
she left Oxford. She has written a book about her recent life and how it
was influenced by her beekeeping experiences, A Honeybee Heart Has Five
Openings (Scribner UK) which is due to be released in, gosh, under 2 weeks.
Jack and I have proofread it and I have to say I really liked it. It
mentions some of us... here's an Amazon link, and you can see an extract
here.
Andrew recently visited Sutton Courtenay Primary School to show them Bee
Things and a writeup will appear on the blog shortly!
Pip pip!
Paul
On 16 July 2018 at 18:53, Jon Woods <jwoods@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Very quiet !
My bees see happy and busy.
But I never did get a swarm. I read somewhere that swarm numbers were
down 66% on last year....
Sent from my iPhone
On 16 Jul 2018, at 17:41, Will H <whanrott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
perhaps it's just quiet just now?
On 16/07/18 17:35, Ann Welch (Redacted sender ann_welch for DMARC) wrote:
Just testing Paul as have not received anything from the mailing list
for a while.
Ann
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