Neils

I know it gives me a good excuse to indulge in a small *ahem* glass of Talisker before bed, but sod off winter, I'm bored and I miss my bees.

I've spent my life savings on the Thornes sale on kit that I might regret buying come spring. I've done all I can do, it's now up to the ladies to get on with it.

Hurry up spring.

So the first talk is over an done with. Not quite the Steve Jobs of the beekeeping world just yet, but overall I think it went rather well.

The plusses:
Having tried very hard to avoid "death by powerpoint" I think I succeeded. I had several comments that the slides were helpful, clear, well presented and helped the talk rather than overwhelmed it.

Once I hit my stride things did flow together reasonably well. The slides didn't fit point for point ...

Dont think Tony need worry just yet.

Nothing like the promise of an upcoming talk to non beeks and taking part in the next round of beginner's courses to send you off into a frenzy of reading up and research and I'm rapidly becoming an expert on using Keynote.

I'm half excited about it and half dreading it to be honest. Where's the plant who's going to spring that question I don't know the answer to going to be lurking? What obvious point that I should have included ...

So I've nearly finished fiddling with the stuff I've taken off the hives this year. The mead continues to bubble away, there remains two buckets of honey still needing putting into jars and my labels still aren't done, but I have now converted the big bucket of cappings and the odd disintegrated super frame into blocks:



Somehow it doesn't seem an awful lot of wax anymore as a lot of the weight ...

IN for a penny and all that jazz. I was less than careful when I uncapped the honey and had a few frames that weren't suitable for uncapping that I thought I could add to the mix so I've had a go at making some mead:



Assuming I haven't totally buggered it up I reckon this should either be a fairly/very sweet mead or you'll be able to use it to strip paint. Perhaps both. About a month ago a ...