Presents for Bee-Apprentice Connie.
Imagine you’ve just turned seven and are fascinated by bees. Your parents allow you to go after school every week to work by yourself with a beekeeper in the next hamlet. They are happy for photos to be taken and used on a blog which brings all this to the attention of the readers and might inspire others to support children in a similar way. And how amazing that a reader should buy Connie a lovely book and a wee hive tool engraved with her name. Connie was bowled over. Her first question about the hive tool was if it was for scraping propolis. Over the next week, Connie is writing a thank you letter to Fred. She started yesterday preparing the paper with bee stamps once we cleared away the honey and oatcakes that always accompany our beekeeping sessions. Oh, and mint tea from the garden.
Moving Connie’s Bees From Nucleus Box to Hive
Gloves
As you can see, the gloves are too big. I like to use biodegradable disposable nitrile (SHOWA 6110PF) from Lakeland. They are more expensive but it feels better for the planet. I might have to use vinyl supermarket gloves for Connie. If anyone has any useful suggestions re small gloves, other than unwieldy and unhygienic leather ones, please advise.
*Header image of National Geographic bee book is a present from Fred Mollison from Dundee
Brilliant!