Letting out a secret -Round Two !

Some of you know about it but not all. Not that there are many of you. Yes the secret can finally be shared.

After we got back from London in January we found that our bees had flown the coup, buggered off from their beehive, formed a dark swarm and went in search of an (ouch ) better home.

The Master Beekeeper was devastated - hence this news was kept under wraps, as its painful truth was too much to bear at the time. The bees had gone off to find another home despite the love, care and attention of the Master - well albeit not over January of 2020. There followed a lot of soul searching, looking for reasons why bees would abscond, and nothing concrete came out of that. They just do. Perhaps they knew there was something deeply troubling about this decade and the way it is unfolding and wanted to hide away somewhere ...

Anyway its all good because today on St George's day we are introducing another swarm which is said to be lively and gentle and highly productive to our cleaned out Beehive. Master Beekeeper was so happy to don his outfit and use his puffer (not to slay the dragon) but to create a lovely new colony which has been repositioned in a sunnier place in the garden, with great, and I mean great expectations resting on them. I hope they know.