Daydream thread continues.....

Itismehonest

If they were trying to get in then the queen may have been checking your place over as a possible newbuild home.
Seriously, if you have several hundred or thousand bees in your place you should hear it.

Have they all gone? ...... or most of them, anyway?
Unless you've still got a lot of them around they may have moved on.

If there are still a load around tomorrow you need to find a beekeeper or bee swarm collector in your local area, give them a ring & see what they suggest. They may belong to a local beekeeper who is wondering where the heck they've gone If not, the beekeeper may be able to get them into a hive for you.

alfie_1

Itismehonest wrote: »

If they were trying to get in then the queen may have been checking your place over as a possible newbuild home.
Seriously, if you have several hundred or thousand bees in your place you should hear it.

Have they all gone? ...... or most of them, anyway?
Unless you've still got a lot of them around they may have moved on.

If there are still a load around tomorrow you need to find a beekeeper or bee swarm collector in your local area, give them a ring & see what they suggest. They may belong to a local beekeeper who is wondering where the heck they've gone If not, the beekeeper may be able to get them into a hive for you.

another job to put on my list....:D i will look in the morning to see if they are still about !! if they are under the tiles then it will be behind my bedhead...:eek: thats all i need ..it will be like being at the dentists..:D

if truth be told, im hoping they are there and that if i can nab a hive quick and put it round there then SHE may think "oooo des res, thats mine !";)

Itismehonest

alfie_1 wrote: »

another job to put on my list....:D i will look in the morning to see if they are still about !! if they are under the tiles then it will be behind my bedhead...:eek: thats all i need ..it will be like being at the dentists..:D

if truth be told, im hoping they are there and that if i can nab a hive quick and put it round there then SHE may think "oooo des res, thats mine !";)

Buzzingham Palace :rotfl:

Well, if they are behind your headboard you'll definitely be dreaming of dentists. Remember Marathon Man? Open wide :eek:

Right. I'm off to bed. Hopefully no dentist dreams for me It's raining here again now so it may be dreams of sleeping under a Public Loo, I guess

rozeepozee

Word must have got out in the bee community alfie that you willingly offer homes to any animogs

ukmaggie45

Momentous day yesterday - OH's last day at work! He is now officially retired. Made redundant from RBS, but he stayed on post 65, so he won't be looking for more work. So first job of his retirement will be mowing the lawn which is looking more like a field of hay, might have to send him to get a scythe!

Meanwhile I'm still trying to clear the vegetable patches of weeds but am leaving the nigella as I love it. Got daffs and a lot of geraniums to get out of one bed, oh and a big patch of elephants ears too. Will be taking them to DD2's as they have a ginormous garden and are also trying to sell their house, so are glad of anything that will help to suppress the weeds! :rotfl: It's very slow work weeding, but pointless to get OH to do it as his idea is to just pull up the big and obvious, leaving the tiddlers to grow to full size in the next shower. :mad: He just turns the soil over so everything regrows.

Got more seeds to start chitting too. We toyed with going to the caravan for a few days, but there's too much needs getting on with here.

Lotus-eater

My non laying hen, has laid, so all a worry about nothing, thanks all for the advice

lostinrates

Hurrah for the hen, and hurrah for retirement mr maggie!

Not hurrah for rain. The Cake needs the pump on again, desperately, so have had to move the horses from the dryest bit of land in to the summer grazing again, and that is more rice paddy. They can come in again tonight, i think they will be grateful, but they need time out. Each foot step leaves a great print, and apart from right next to the ditches there is standing water all over.


Also, something has been digging under one of our great oaks this week, it has damaged some of the roots, going clean through one. I think this has potential to cause problems for the tree, but don't know, what is the consensus here, and any ideas what to do? It is a protected tree, but digging creatures don't really care about that!


The geese are locked in the back garden today and the dogs are quaking in their paws about that. But so much easier for me later trying to roundt every one up!

Davesnave

Happy retirement to your DH Maggie.

Now you can get him to do twice as much in the garden. :rotfl:

Good news on the hen.

Think it might be badgers, lir?

Some of our grass isn't growing well in the bottom field. There are roundish patches where it seems thin and not so forward; a bit like where a dog has wee-ed, but not as bad, just .....noticeable. Possibly previous dry weather or some kind of fungus affecting roots? Guessing really.

lostinrates

Dunno davesnave, doesn't look big enough for brocks. I have not seen badgers just here, have seen them (dead) up in the higher villages, but not down here. I like badgers, but my guess is my dairy farmer neighbour who is a paragon of nature loving might feel wary of them.

Lotus-eater

I think only badgers could go through a tree root like that, can't think of anything else that could do it.

Dave, fairy rings, fungus? Sounds like it.

Tell you what, having 3 hens that all are different colours and lay different colour eggs, makes keeping an eye on them and seeing any problems a cinch. Brilliant idea. :idea:

......wish it had been mine :rotfl: