{"id":17,"date":"2022-09-26T10:31:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubiel.uk\/?p=17"},"modified":"2022-09-26T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T11:16:08","slug":"bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubiel.uk\/index.php\/2022\/09\/26\/bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It started keeping bees in late 2018 or at least I think it was that year. However, I was interested with creepy-crawly stuff for most of my life. I like nature in all it shapes and forms, plants or animals, critters or birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were a number of reasons to start beekeeping, not just the fashionable idea of helping the environment. No no, there was much more than that… Have you seen the prices of mead<\/a> in recent years?! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You are right, it wasn’t just mead that started me keeping bees. I remember, from when I was a youth, my auntie’s back garden in which six old, empty hives drowned in a deep grass. They looked sad in their quiet destitute. I thought that it would be so ‘cool’ – a word from back then – to have bees and hear them buzz. To have hives full of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For obvious reasons, keeping bees back then was impossible. I was busy with other things, more important – I thought. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then, a few years ago, a bee swarm stopped at my doorstep. My wife wasn’t too excited, but it gave me a chance to see beekeepers in action. After a number of phone calls, we were told that someone will come to collect the bees. In my naivety, I was expecting a SWAT team, dressed in sting proof suits, arriving in a ghostbusters-style vehicle. To my dismay, a rather different team turned up. Two, elderly gentlemen, wearing jeans and short bee jackets with thin veil protecting their faces, plus they had no extra bee proof vehicle but a white fiesta. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was an epiphany, I knew bees were everywhere, after making all the phone calls I knew the local Beekeepers Association existed too. All I had to do was to complete the beginners course and start a new hobby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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