Bees, beekeeping and honey

What George HW Bush taught me about honey

George HW Bush, whom current circumstances are showing to be neither as bad, nor or as stupid, as we all liked to make him out, made an...

Why Wednesday really matters

What is the question to which the correct answer is £1 billion? Lots of things, of course, but for now it is: ‘What would it cost the UK...

Schrodinger’s Honey Jar

I feel for the beleaguered Duke of York this evening, for whom the term ‘car crash interview’ seems to have invented. But no one can tell...

An Invisible Armageddon

It’s not often you can do something useful before breakfast. But having taken my son and his friends to the airport at 4.00 a.m only to...

If not you, then who?

Between lunch and some rugby match last Saturday afternoon, Duncan and I got up close and personal to our bees for the first time this...

Midwinter Bees vs Cricketers

My bees are bloody freezing. It’s that time of year when you don’t even dare to open the top of the hive to see if they’ve got enough to...

The Rude Forefathers.

There are few signs of getting older more damning than taking part in the RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch. I suppose beekeeping gives it a...

On being punished by my bees.

They’re still carting ivy in. January bees in our area should be tucked up as part of a protective ball around the queen in the hive’s...

Boot camp

Winter came sliding off down the hill behind us last night, filling the gaps and hollows with frost. There is always a day when you awake...