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    Default A mighty wind

    Time to batten down the hatches.



    http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/16068618
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    Things were never the same after the Beeb stopped using the ancient pyramidic scrolls for forecasts.

    Is this a three-brick or a four brick storm Trog? Or even a two?

    Time for all the polyhive users to get nervous.

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    My apideas could end up with Grizzly in Stranraer.

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    Tie them down with long pieces of string and see if you can be the first to have Apidea kites.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    My apideas could end up with Grizzly in Stranraer.
    They will be most welcome Jon.

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    Sent home from work today so checked my colonies at 3 sites. All OK but then the blocks of concrete on the roof seem to be working. Just watching a large water spout from my front window twisting down the loch

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    Quote Originally Posted by gavin View Post
    Things were never the same after the Beeb stopped using the ancient pyramidic scrolls for forecasts.

    Is this a three-brick or a four brick storm Trog? Or even a two?

    Time for all the polyhive users to get nervous.
    I left them with one brick each, Gavin. The hives are waterlogged so I reckoned there'd be plenty of weight in the wood! Will find out when I go outside once dawn has cracked!

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    Wind scattered a couple of my spare empty hives - no damage.All the occupied hives and neucs o.k.

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    Reports from the association site suggest that the stones on the roofs of the polyhives were not sufficient. I'll have a look at lunchtime. The Swienty poly National roofs do have a big rim around the edge.

    Must be wonderful living in a place with a view of the loch from Rosneath. Helensburgh featured prominently in the TV coverage with the seafront getting a bit of a battering. Did you really cross using the ferry yesterday Jim?

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    Used the military road to get home. The MOD know how to construct roads. No floods or trees etc. They should give lessons to the council on road construction but then they have to transport the odd nuke along them.(I also transport the odd nuc along this road)
    Gavin, should have used a few concrete blocks on the poly hives in the club apairy. Our club has a system that has a concrete slab base with a thick wire running underneath with 2 loops that ropes are attached to to hold down the hives

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