Hello Everyone, Well well well, what fun I’ve been up to since the last post. Not going to lie, getting married has been one of the most...

Hello Everyone, It’s me (Greg) back again and I think I will be the main writer for a while as Kat is quite busy currently, and probably...

Hello Everyone, It’s me again (Greg), Kat was busy with being a teacher/reputable member of society so she let me write another blog post...

Today we visited the apiary as a spur-of-the-moment decision on the way back from my wedding dress fitting (I'm not excited! You're...

These past couple of weeks have been a bit full-on for both Kat and I, so today I’m taking control! *evil laugh* The power! No doubt...

So today we first went to where our newly christened Steph and the Nuc reside. We wanted to check if they'd moved up into our top brood...

Yesterday was an exciting day for us. It was bee delivery day at the new apiary! Greg had ordered a full colony and a nuc of overwintered...

Today, inspired by the glorious weather, we completed our first full inspection of 2021. The temperature of the apiary was 21°C and sunny...

Welcome back to our second season of beekeeping. It feels like ages since we last wrote but Spring feels like it's well on its way and...

Happy New Year my fellow Beeks! This weekend has been the warmest and dryest so far at 7°C so Greg, who has been pestering to go and...

Since last I wrote Greg has been very busy. Very busy weather watching ... The weather has been rubbish - rainy and cold - and the...

Hi there, from a very autumnal and rainy cosy day. I thought I'd take this opportunity to update you again on the bees and the apiary. As...

So, having worked a 60 hour week last week, I hope you can understand why we skipped a post. We did inspect the bees but I just didn't...

Today we popped by the bees to do an inspection but it had to be cut short quite quickly due to the weather and Kat's impending workload...

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...