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    As all of you North of the Border are probably still comatose after too much Scottish Wine, let me be the first to say Happy New year to all.


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    Happy Hogmanay all the best for the new year

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    Just back from partying in Edinburgh ... really! .... but I have to admit that I didn't spend Hogmanay there. Last year Fish (of Marillion fame for those with long memories) outed himself as a celebrity Scottish beekeeper and earlier on the live music stage at the Mound in Edinburgh a man who's music is engraved in the kids' DNA from the exposure his CDs had on our trips to the Highlands said at one point: 'I hope my bees are surviving this hard winter'. Maybe I'll tempt him on here one day and let him introduce himself in person. For the Muileachs on here his family trace back to Mull although he was brought up in Perthshire.

    Anyway, thanks Adam, and Robin118, and I really hope that 2011 brings everyone out there all the success and happiness possible.

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    Hmm; interesting. What's the Fish's real name? I must confess I've never heard of him.

    Happy New Year to everyone from one of the many Scots who stayed sober over Hogmanay!

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    Fish is Derek Dick, surprisingly called Derek Fish in this text for the Beechgrove Garden episode where his beekeeping was revealed: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t3t5j

    The Mull-linked Perthshire bard who told us yesterday that he was a beekeeper was given an OBE in the New Years Honours list: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...ntral-12094777

    Apparently Bill Turnbull the BBC news presenter has a Scottish father so maybe we can claim a bit of him too. He is the President of the BBKA-affliliated Ulster splinter-group the Institute of Northern Ireland Beekeepers, so if folk over the water want to claim him too they can.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trog View Post
    Happy New Year to everyone from one of the many Scots who stayed sober over Hogmanay!
    Yeah, me too, but its nice to play up to the stereotype sometimes!

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    Belated Greetings from me too!

    Never heard of Fish? I'm shocked I tells ya, shocked.

    If anyone remembers that really daft channel 4, post pub, show Banzai from a few years back, Fish provided one of the more entertaining segments:

    "Can Fish, from Marillion, finish the introduction to Kayleigh before an old lady can down half a pint of sherry?"
    Followed by
    "Can Fish, from Marillion, finish the introduction to Kayleigh before an old lady can reach the top of the stairs on her stair lift"

    As the introduction to Kayleigh is instrumental this consisted largely of a rather bemused looking fish watching said old lady downing half a pint of sherry or slowly coming up the stairs while waiting to see if he'd get to sing anything.

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    One of the stranger offerings from Channel 4, that was. Do you have any celebrity beekeepers in your neck of the woods? Ooo ... maybe Kate Humble is in your area? If she turns up regularly at the association apiary I might have to join your association ...
    Last edited by gavin; 02-01-2011 at 03:37 PM.

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    None that I'm aware of. Our attendance at anything compared to our membership is pretty low at the moment so I wouldn't come rushing down just yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trog View Post
    Happy New Year to everyone from one of the many Scots who stayed sober over Hogmanay!
    I also stayed sober on your so called Scottish Hogmany but that still leaves 364 days for imbibing the apple wine.
    I often spend the evening of December 31st with the residents at the project where I work and that's an alcohol free zone.
    I had a row of 6 gallon containers in the shed turn to apple flavoured slush a couple of weeks back. Let's hope it does not affect the exquisite flavour of my home brew.

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