BEES n SHIT

[Rodinus]

Greetings folks.

As promised yesterday I will start my thread today concerning a lifelong thingummyjig that has been "Bugging" me for nigh on a wicked time.

BEE Keeping :

4 years ago my son Rod Jr decided to put in santas sack a bee hive.... Thank buggery it was not full!... The Sack under the chimney... Fnarrrr fnarrrrr....

Since then we have moved house from the countryside (The Stix (for you uneducated yanks so to speak... HUMOUR)) into a quaint French country side village in the Val de Loire which has a distance of about 10 minutes to the nearest hospital if needed).... Me getting old...

We have finally got the boxes emptied and most of the crappy stuff done apart from finishing of my clinic (I'm a hypnotherapist)...

I managed to have a rummage around in those boxes that were marked "Open One Day When You Are Old or bored".

I did it... found the 5 boxes of bee hive components...

"Bugger me" I thought... Hoping that no-one was in the vicinity to even THINK about Buggering me (Luckily the Mali is around in moments of great contemplation) AND will protect me (Just in case some of your sickos were thinking that I wish for our Mali to perform some kind off Canine Buggery act...)

Anyway : Unpacked everything and scratched my head thinking about how I was going to go about all of this BEE KEEPING stuff.

So after doing much internet research and also discussing with my new neighbour who is a master bee keeper, I present to you my new thread...

HOW TO GET STUNG TO FUCKING DEATH BY A NEWBIE BEE KEEPER...

As from tomorrow I will post pics and update when possible.

This is where I want to place the hive : The wall is situated with protection from North eastern winds and rain and also provides enough sunlight in the afternoon without the bees becoming too hot (which can have a negative impact on them as they need to cool the hive down and takes up much of their time.)



I will also probably put up a shelter (tiny brick roof above as sometimes here in summer we can go up to 40°c)

Anyways... As I endevour in my quest to not get my arse stung to death, I will update when I can...

Enjoy folks and here are a couple of useful links I use at the moment :

https://www.beekeeping-101.com/how-to-ma...beekeeper/

https://www.beekeeping-for-beginners.com...eping.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf9BckG9nXs

Hugs n stuff

Rodf