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

There was once this really selfish woman who had a plan to ruin all of her family's lives by moving to the other side of the world. For some inexplicable reason, she had this feeling that this place on the other side of the world, the one with the clean, green reputation would be a better place for them all to live. Her family however, (bar one), had other ideas. Despite her best efforts to persuade them, which in itself was like wading through mud, they remained impassive about the whole idea....

Dawn

Well- after a lot of internet browsing etc I finaly decided what I wantedt to do with my tattoo.
I have never really been happy with my original and wanted something doing with it.

Now i'm in New Zealand I figured it was the best place to get a good tattoo done and a found the perfect guy.

Had stage 1 done today- yes it is quite big and no it isn't finished.

I'm going to get some tidying up done on the original and blend into it and then some more...

ebianca

Hi I have been a guest for about a year reading all the wonderful comments and info about NZ (and how to emigrate there) which has really helped me through some wintery dark days, even in July in the UK! I am very excited to have finally plucked up the courage to introduce myself. My husband and I have two boys (12 +14) and we are finally visiting NZ for the first time this xmas. I am hoping the family will fall in love with NZ as much as I have already (without even seeing it!!) and will want...

Green7709

The fun never stops around here. At least I didn’t get stung today (yet).

I was a bit drowsy from antihistamines this morning, so didn’t feel up to an excursion with Karin & Kate. Perking up a little later, I figured I needed to work on woodenware for the bees. It took a little while for the loud humming to attract my attention, but finally I looked out to see what the bees were up to. A cloud of swarming bees is impressive. I guess none of the neighbors noticed, because I heard...

selchie