Drones Over Guildford In this month’s Beekeeper’s Notes, Hugh Coakley talks about exploding genitalia and being eaten by wasps, all part of the highs and lows in the life of…
September 1, 2015 / 3 Comments / Read MoreBy Malcolm Fincham As August arrived noticeable signs that the tide of summer was starting to turn. I heard our local blackbird sing his last tuneful song of this year on July…
August 21, 2015 / 4 Comments / Read MoreThe latest report from Richard Cant, the Stoke lengthman on the River Wey Navigations The continuing dry weather in July meant that the grass on the locksides has stopped growing for now,…
August 16, 2015 / No Comment / Read MoreVolunteers have been pulling up pretty flowering plants because it is feared they are a huge threat to a waterway restoration project in Surrey and Sussex. Workers have been “bashing”…
August 4, 2015 / 1 Comment / Read MoreThe first time you see a beehive opened in front of you is a memorable experience. It is certainly one us beekeepers remember. Reactions can be a mixture of surprise…
August 3, 2015 / No Comment / Read MoreOne of the joys of living in Guildford is our close proximity still, despite the inexorable suburban creep, to the countryside. Here are just a few images taken on a…
August 2, 2015 / 1 Comment / Read MoreSo Much Owed To So Many By So Few In the latest in a series of Hugh Coakley’s Beekeeper’s Notes, he writes about harvesting honey. It’s about now when beekeepers around the…
August 1, 2015 / 2 Comments / Read MoreThe latest report from Richard Cant, the Stoke lengthman on the River Wey Navigations For much of June the main task for me was continuing cutting back the rapidly growing vegetation. The first…
July 22, 2015 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Malcolm Fincham Still determination to be successful in our quest to get a sighting of a purple emperor butterfly, having being defeated in attempts to see one in my last report,…
July 22, 2015 / 2 Comments / Read MoreRiverbank tales from our local St Catherine’s Lengthsman/Weirkeeper by Robert Craig I’ve spent a lot of time mowing and strimming at the beginning of June, prior to taking leave towards…
July 13, 2015 / 1 Comment / Read More
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