August 2005
We began August as we had ended July by "creaming" the Oil
Seed Rape honey - gently warming the tub and stirring the honey until
it was softened before bottling it quickly into jars. We hope people like
our early attempts at creamed honey and will buy it.
On 5th August Paul went back to Flaxton to strim the area around the bracken
and weeds around the hives. 
Before: All covered in long Bracken
Paul
attacks with a Sickle
After: The finished area after a the petrol strimmer had
cleaned things up
All the bee colonies there are now very wild and vicious - they even tried to sting the petrol grass strimmer! We shall really have to keep an eye on these bees!
The spark
plug on the strimmer was covered in stings!
The rest of August was mainly taken up with regular hive inspections and
preparing to remove the heavy, full supers of honey in September.