Well, I finally did it! Got my first tattoo last night! Still getting used to it, but lovin' it

Thanks to Ebianca for her help & advice

keeweegal

After much chasing (about 4 weeks) of buyers, solicitors, agents and surveyors our buyers have finally paid the deposit and we should exchange contracts later this week. At last we can relax knowing that the house has officially been sold and we can get on with the boring stuff such as packing up and flying to NZ Now I know why we have never moved - selling a house is so stressful I'm surprised we haven't come to blows.

We have spent so much time waiting to get to...

nickydwuk

A week after Garrett helped inspect my hives, and we saw eggs in my original hive, I looked in again. The queen was nowhere to be seen, but they can be pretty elusive. But the I found no eggs, and only very mature larvae and capped pupae. That means the queen is probably AWOL or dead. To make matters more definite, the vast majority of the capped brood was drones. That means she didn’t mate well, and is thus a dud. Make that a missing dud.

No worries, I thought. I have two brand-new...

selchie

Hello folks!

just a little update.

Tez has a job offer with safeair in blenheim. We are dealing with a company called meridian, and we paid them £1000 consultancy fee - i assumed they would then do most of the work! - does not seem to work that way. We are currently filling in our EOI - what a nightmare!!!!! this forum has been a real life saver lol.
Im really worried about the medicals, have given up smoking and have lost 5 pounds already as my BMI is really...

TeznBex

The bees have certainly been keeping me on my toes. After making the “queen cell” split and having a swarm, things got confusing and stressful. Many wee-hour wakings, thinking of what I should have done with this, that and the other thing. I had worries that there were no queens, or at least no well-mated queens in the three new hives. So I did some bee juggling to keep them contented, and eventually recombined two hives into one. I envisioned recombining the potentially queenless or dud queen hives...

selchie