Sunday, 9 June 2013

Everything ready

So, after a number of very stressful days, trying to make everything ready while still teaching (marking was relegated to the small hours of the night), I finally had everything ready: the hives (painted), the risk assessment, the suits, the site, the smoker, the frames, the dummy boards, feeders and what not.

The only thing missing, apart from the bees, were pupils to welcome the bees with me. The selection process for this was not quite so easy: as we have three bee suits (Small, XS and XXS), I was looking for a babushka-line of three pupils, so ideally one more senior one, one middle-sized one and one younger pupil. I asked all interested pupils to come and see me. After I said only those with wellies in school and without a music lesson or practice on at the time in question could be considered I had reduced a small crowd to four pupils. Thus the multiple obligations of prep school life took their toll. But at least I had three.

Two hives waiting for residents

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