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Keeping Bee's....

olster
olster Posts: 1,405
edited November 2011 in General Charlton
Does anyone do it?

Not brentford supporters but actual bee's....

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,306
    If anyone does, can I have a bee beard?  I've always wanted a bee beard.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,427
    edited November 2011
    I heard that Solly, Morrison, Taylor & Wiggins like to keep bees in their backpockets on Saturday afternoons.
  • lancashire lad
    lancashire lad Posts: 15,708
    Yes I've kept bees for many years, but no beard it's too itchy.
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    edited November 2011
    No, but I do keep Brentford supporters.  I've had a couple of them in my cellar for a couple of years now, the cheeky little monkeys!  But I'm getting a bit bored with them now.  I haven't been down there for a week or so.
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274

    I'm pest control so know a little bit about them....I also deal with asian hornets (vespa mandarinia), which are a threat to the honey bee and a reason why the bee has been under threat in throughout Europe for the last few years!

  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    your views on the African bees Rob?
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    Love the way it baton changes with the cape honey bee
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    African bees (killer bees), you wouldn't want to be about when they decide to swarm!
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    they could ruin the european ones within days just kill there queen bees and put there own there,all because of a scientist
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,409
    My dad used to when we lived in Kidbrooke , i used to enjoy getting involved with the honey extraction and putting the stuff in jars(when i was a kid) also have memories of the buggers swarming and the neighbours knocking on the doors terrified    , im sure my elder brother still has the old hives stashed away somewhere ,   

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  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274

    I don't know much about them Nolly to bee honest mate. I think they are present in some parts of Europe though!

  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,576
    I've got a feeling that Henry keeps bees...........or maybe has done in the past.
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    Friggin africans!!
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    lol They're everywhere...........thousands of 'em!
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    Rob tell em about the Coipus mate  we dont get many in Kidbrooke, i think that natives ate em.
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274

    The Coypu (myocastor coypus), or Ragondin as they are known to the French. They are about the size of a large cat, and live in the banks of lakes or other still water ways. I hunt them over here for a few land-owners and apparently in Germany they are made into a pate and eaten. There're native to South America, but are now found all over due to being farmed for their coat (nutria) and released when the farms closed. Looked upon as a major aggricultural pest because they live on roots, wasting upto 95% of the plant/tree. Where I live is big apple growing country so they are eager to keep the numbers here down. Interesting animals though.......

  • bigstemarra
    bigstemarra Posts: 5,100
    My mate told me the other week that he was taking up beekeeping - it must be all the rage.

    Good luck to you; hopefully the likes of yourself can contribute to the recovery of our bees after a pretty bad decade.

    ...and Big Rob, that is amazing, I never knew they had those critters in Europe - I've seen them in documentaries in S.America before, but I'll have to keep an eye out for them in the river in front of my house - I know the buggers can swim, so some of them might have fancied a little paddle across the channel!
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    They use to be in England as well they were all over the Norfolk Broads but were wiped out a few years back.
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    we still talking about the bees GH?
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    No sorry Nolly i went off track there re Coipus.

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  • red_murph
    red_murph Posts: 2,460
    Have seen a Coypu way back when, whilst fishing on the Norfolk Broads. Funny little things with big gnashers!
  • McLovin
    McLovin Posts: 2,307
    I think I ate one of them in South America. 
  • Granpa
    Granpa Posts: 2,995

    This is stretching the thread a bit, but some years ago I started to feel arthritis in one of my hands. I happened to see an article about manuka honey which I believe may be exclusive to New Zealand, and its ability to hold back the pain. I started to take manuka honey capsules with bee sting, and although I can still feel a twinge in that hand, the other hand has not been affected.

    I mentioned this to a friend who was really suffering after years of breaking in horses in California, and he was advised just to take manuka honey. Last time I spoke to him he was amazed at the improvement. If anyone wants details of my supplier in this country, just let me know.

  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274

    This is stretching the thread a bit, but some years ago I started to feel arthritis in one of my hands. I happened to see an article about manuka honey which I believe may be exclusive to New Zealand, and its ability to hold back the pain. I started to take manuka honey capsules with bee sting, and although I can still feel a twinge in that hand, the other hand has not been affected.

    I mentioned this to a friend who was really suffering after years of breaking in horses in California, and he was advised just to take manuka honey. Last time I spoke to him he was amazed at the improvement. If anyone wants details of my supplier in this country, just let me know.

    Be interesting if this works for Gout too?

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