A few years back during a particularly unpleasant rain storm in Scotland I was putting the world to rights with a colleague when he told me all about his beekeeping experiences. A few bottles of red later and a plan was hatched. Circumstances did not allow a direct leap into beekeeping at that point so I spent some months researching the subject online; I was amazed at just how much information exists and how many differing opinions there are to a simple question.
Work commitments prevented me from doing much other than read until the latter part of 2010 when I finally moved back to a new job close to home on the south coast. Taking the plunge I bought a kitten for my daughter, 3 chickens for the garden and and joined the local beekeeping club.
Pretty soon Friday evenings were spent in the company of like minded individuals and the club was overwhelmed with applications for the night school classes due to run in the spring of 2011. Luckily both my wife and I were accepted and rushed out to buy everything we thought we'd need ... all the advice was to wait but not us; we got it all including a flat packed hive for Christmas. Thursday evening in January had us studiously following the lectures on view-foils followed by practical sessions on frame building completing with a few hands on sessions at Manor Farm where the association has its training apiary.
All we needed then was some bees ..
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