Hello everyone, sorry that this week's post is a bit late. What with the busy bank holiday seeing friends and arriving back from Devon...

In today's inspection, the name of the game was to find and mark as many of our three queens as we could and also treat all the colonies...

Yesterday we brought our inspection forward a day so that my mum, who was up visiting, could come and see the little buzzers. She was...

Today's inspection was a mixture of highs and lows as we are finding is the norm with our beekeeping journey. Earlier in the week Greg...

Our weekly inspection began as usual. We were wanting to check the nuc for queen cells in our final attempt to re-queen her. We wanted to...

Today we arrived and inspected the nuc first. This put a downer on the inspection as we knew there was nothing really to find and that we...

So I managed to keep Greg away from the apiary for a whole week! (Medal required.) Unfortunately, he found evidence to say that we should...

This weekend lockdown eased enough for my brother to visit the apiary. As I mentioned in our first blog post about how we became...

Today, as promised, Greg and I visited the apiary to check on our queenless situation. We inspected the nuc first and were essentially...

So since our first inspection, the weather has been AWFUL, really windy and rainy, so we weren't able to go in and rectify our queenless...

Since I last wrote I've rallied over the embarrassment and disappointment of my first sting and we made our way down to our apiary today...

So today we'd planned a quiet day prepping for the bees to arrive tomorrow, only to get a phone call about midday asking if we were happy...

So project: Apiary is now complete and it's looking really good if we do say so ourselves! On Tuesday the wood chippings arrived and we...

This weekend we really cracked on. On Saturday Greg actually took me out of the village and let me have a run around in a garden center!...

This week we started putting together our Apiary! Since my last post, our bee suits have arrived and I'm pleased to say they go...

Yesterday, we went to visit our new mentor's hives! It was to be our first ever hive experience and we had no idea what to expect. We had...

It all started, naturally enough, with a tea towel from Malta. "The lemons out there were outstanding!" Gushed my mum. "We thought you...