This week saw Expert Beekeeper decide to move her hives from further north where they had been lazy and unproductive to our smallholding. Despite the poor weather, they recovered really quickly from the trip in the back of the pick up (they didn’t like the banjo music though) and started foraging for pollen and making honey. Expert Beekeeper had to add to the hives to give them room. She has an apprentice now (Geordie Smallholder Son, GSS) in a white bee suit in the photos below. She told him to wear thick clothing under the suit so that he wouldn’t get stung, but failed to take her own advice. I ask you, who works with bees in their skimpy jammies? So she is sporting some lovely red lumps on her arms (didn’t take any antihistamine either, did she?). I bet she did the school run in her slippers lol.
Cushy Butterfield has been walking badly of late so the very nice vet took some X-rays and diagnosed arthritis. She also has a wee abscess which we have poulticed and she has a lovely boot to wear when she is out to keep the dirt out. She hates it and keeps trying to flick it off as she moves which makes her look like the arthritis is worse than it actually is.
Expert Beekeeper is having Easter dinner tomorrow as we missed it earlier in the year. I will leave you today with a photo of the pink poppies. I could wear a summer dress and hat and ponce around the garden with a basket cutting flowers and saying “no really, Inspector, I didn’t hear a thing last night”. Yes I could be in Midsommer Murders too.
The Geordie Smallholder 
Save some honey for me. xxx
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Might be difficult to get it to you. Xx
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