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Despite the weather, it was busy in the park this Sunday, as crowds arrived to build snowpeople, toboggan down the slopes and make what they could of the last few hours of daylight they’d see before reporting themselves snowbound on … Continue reading →

At this time of year, when the frost makes sparkles in the sunlight, and songbirds flit merrily across the azure vault, baroquely ornamenting the stillness of the frozen air with their cheerful tootling, the gravid fronds of the mournful willow … Continue reading →

There comes a time in every year when, according to the instructions of our betters, and on pain of chastisement, ostracism, death or humiliation, we have to account for our actions, or the lack of them. As it is with … Continue reading →

I know it looks like we’ve been doing nothing since July, but we’ve been very busy. At the end of July, we took our final harvest. This time, it was liquid honey rather than cut-comb, and that involved a lot … Continue reading →

The Lambeth Country Show is a surprisingly large event, considering that Lambeth farmers, on the whole, prefer anonymity.  It’s also interestingly diverse, hosting a host of diversions including a Punch and Judy show, an onion contest, piglets, dodgems and a … Continue reading →

The bees have done well, and we have three good colonies, two of which are very strong, and all of which look well set to take advantage of the main honey flow which should be happening now. A small, fourth … Continue reading →

Have you ever sat down with a mug of coffee and wondered where the biscuits are? And, then, why you’ve got crumbs down your front? Or how you got home on a Saturday night? A bee’s life is a bit … Continue reading →

We’re told that April is a cruel month and, for beekeepers, that’s true. Not as cruel as May or June, perhaps, but not very nice all the same. As buds burst forth to leaf and flower and the sunshine tempts … Continue reading →

Last Sunday was another sunny, warm Sunday and so, after we’d done a little painting and hammering, we collared some visitors, put them in bee-suits and made them watch our student open up the hive we didn’t manage to inspect … Continue reading →