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What use is an empty honey jar (with a lid), a single frame pin and a hammer ? Well no prize for the right answer ! However in a bee...
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Philip Closier
- Jan 21, 2021
- 2 min
Making life simple
As I have mentioned before make life simple, do not lift more than you have to, Just took delivery of some 50mm wheels from good old eBay...
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Philip Closier
- Jan 17, 2021
- 2 min
Nothing much going on..... part 2!
Well I am back from a bitterly cold trip to the apiary, and found that it is still very snow bound with ice on top of the hives in...
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Philip Closier
- Jan 17, 2021
- 1 min
Nothing much going on.....
It is Sunday 17th January, I am going to pop up to the apiary in a min to check the hives and the entrances. It is sunny but quite frosty...
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Philip Closier
- Jan 9, 2021
- 1 min
Great minds think alike!!
Ok I follow the Apiarist Blog and it is really good and I really recommend it.... he does it so much better than I do... But I did get my...
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Philip Closier
- Jan 8, 2021
- 1 min
Another Cold Day!
The weather is hovering around freezing and the rain is falling as sleet covering everything is a wet slush.... A short one today to...
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Philip Closier
- Jan 1, 2021
- 1 min
Making Wax Food Wraps
This video post will take you through the basics of making a wax food wrap so you can cut down on one use plastics. Important -not...
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Philip Closier
- Jan 1, 2021
- 1 min
Another OA treatment
Just a quick one of an OA treatment I did for a member over on the North Yorkshire Moors. As you can see it is a really quick process......
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Philip Closier
- Dec 30, 2020
- 6 min
Harvesting Honey a quick overview!
Hi… foolishly several members have said they want some notes! This is of course a very personal viewpoint… feel free to take or reject...
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Philip Closier
- Dec 27, 2020
- 1 min
27th December 2020
We had a bit of a storm last night... high winds and rain. So this morning I jumped in the car and ...(well spent 20 minutes using...
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Philip Closier
- Dec 23, 2020
- 3 min
Cold Day in the Apiary
Hi to all my readers, it is now just past the Solstice and the days will soon get longer so I am trying to get a number of jobs done that...
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Philip Closier
- Dec 17, 2020
- 1 min
Making Hand Cream
Morning to you all, it has been wet, cold and generally miserable outside! I often suffer from cracked skin on my hands at this time of...
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Philip Closier
- Dec 15, 2020
- 1 min
Treating the Bees!
The weather is bright and clear, 6C, so I am going for it today... and treating this is how it goes.... we actually did 28 hives in 1:30...
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Philip Closier
- Dec 14, 2020
- 1 min
Preparing for treatment
This is what you get. A bottle of oxalic acid Two packs of sugar and additives The packs of sugar are added to the liquid which has been...
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Philip Closier
- Dec 14, 2020
- 1 min
Winter Varroa Treatment
Hi, this morning I started making preparations to treat the bees with a VMD approved oxalic acid preparation. I have previously used Api...
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