I don't think you'd like a "relaxing" holiday down here...
It may be a bit too built up and busy for what you are used too
Glad OC, has looked after things for you and hope he is well
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Good evening OH,
I don't think you'd like a "relaxing" holiday down here...
It may be a bit too built up and busy for what you are used too
Glad OC, has looked after things for you and hope he is well
I don't think you'd like a "relaxing" holiday down here...
It may be a bit too built up and busy for what you are used too
Glad OC, has looked after things for you and hope he is well
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Whilst on holiday i visited Bodnant gardens, and i must say very impressed i was as well.
Well worth a visit if anyone is in that area.
It's about an eighty acre garden with twenty full time staff and lots of volunteers, so the gardens are kept to quite a high standard.
A very nice cafeteria too, with very friendly staff.
Well worth a visit if anyone is in that area.
It's about an eighty acre garden with twenty full time staff and lots of volunteers, so the gardens are kept to quite a high standard.
A very nice cafeteria too, with very friendly staff.
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Dear Alan, what would this forum be like without your pictures and links, thank you.
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Morning OH
Where else did you get to?
Where else did you get to?
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Morning Alan, i also had a lovely day at Gastell Penrhyn.
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Morning Alan, did your old Mare cast a shoe!
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Morning OH
Just reckoned old 'oss needed an airing
It's a photograph taken outside our smithy in the late 1920's. Here's the full size.
Just reckoned old 'oss needed an airing
It's a photograph taken outside our smithy in the late 1920's. Here's the full size.
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I just love old photographs of village life, especially when they have a connection.
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Whilst we are things 'oss.....
Here's my Grandad with an 'oss...
It was Grandad who in 1969 gave me my first bit of vegetable garden to grow some Maris Peer Potatoes...
At the time of the photo..1910-1914.?.he was working as a groom/driver at a big house in a Leicestershire village....
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Here's my Grandad with an 'oss...
It was Grandad who in 1969 gave me my first bit of vegetable garden to grow some Maris Peer Potatoes...
At the time of the photo..1910-1914.?.he was working as a groom/driver at a big house in a Leicestershire village....
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Not really a picture of village life, but it might be of interest to today's gardeners. This is a picture of D T Brown's staff outside their Poulton-le-Fylde building during the Second World War. My late Aunty May is fourth from the right on the middle row
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A beekeeper has made a breakthrough that could halt the rapid decline in the global bee population.
Ron Hoskins has found a breed of the insect that protects itself against the parasite blamed for the alarming fall in numbers.
The 79-year-old made the discovery after realising that one of his hives had far fewer deaths from the varroa mite than others.
Breakthrough: Beekeeper Ron Hoskins has found a breed of the insect that protects itself against the parasite causing a rapid decline in the bee population
He found that the insects in that hive 'groomed' each other to get rid of the mites before they had the chance to do any harm.
Now he is attempting to spread his mite-resistant breed of bees by cross-breeding them with queens from other hives.
More...Out of this world! Bacteria taken from English village survives in space for 553 days
The staggering fall in bee colony numbers has led to warnings about mass starvation.
Without bees, crops and plants would not be pollinated and much of what we eat wouldn't survive, experts say.
The worldwide economic value of their pollination is estimated to be £130billion a year.
Decline: The UK's bee population had dropped by 60 per cent since 1970 after the varroa mite entered Britain
The varroa mite entered Britain in 1992, killing millions of bees. By 2007 the UK's bee population had dropped by 60 per cent since 1970.
And a survey published in May by the British Beekeepers' Association revealed that beekepers lost 17 per cent of their colonies in the past year alone. The mite has also become resistant to chemicals that have controlled it in the past.
Mr Hoskins, who developed an interest in beekeeping at the age of 12 after he was evacuated to live with a beekeeper in Oxfordshire at the start of the Second World War, has spent 18 years researching a mite-resistant breed of bee.
Research: The 79-year-old discovered that one of his hives had far fewer deaths than others because they began to remove the mites through 'grooming'
The former heating engineer from Swindon has lost tens of thousands of bees to the parasitic varroa mite over the years.
During his research he found one of his 80 hives had suffered far fewer mite deaths than the others, he examined the insects and found tiny marks on the bees where the mites had been.
He realised this was because they had begun to 'groom' one another to remove the parasites.
He has now cross-bred his hives so they all contain the 'Swindon honeybee', as he has named it.
He said: 'What I want to do is redevelop the British bee so that it can protect itself against these varroa mites.
'If all the bees in the world die out then we die out - the situation is really that serious.
'Humans are completely reliant on bees for pollinating crops and plants which produce oxygen.
We are hoping that drones from my grooming bees will mate with wandering female virgin queens and spread the footprint across Britain.
'This is not a short-term solution and it will take a lot of work but it could be our only hope of saving the bee.'
Martin Smith, president of the British Beekeepers' Association, said: 'The varroa mite is probably the single most important factor that has caused the reduction in bee numbers worldwide.
'It has now become resistant to chemicals we have used in the past so we are being forced to look into other methods.
'This could be the solution to the problem and it is exciting to hear about his progress.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... z0xbUJqaYU
Ron Hoskins has found a breed of the insect that protects itself against the parasite blamed for the alarming fall in numbers.
The 79-year-old made the discovery after realising that one of his hives had far fewer deaths from the varroa mite than others.
Breakthrough: Beekeeper Ron Hoskins has found a breed of the insect that protects itself against the parasite causing a rapid decline in the bee population
He found that the insects in that hive 'groomed' each other to get rid of the mites before they had the chance to do any harm.
Now he is attempting to spread his mite-resistant breed of bees by cross-breeding them with queens from other hives.
More...Out of this world! Bacteria taken from English village survives in space for 553 days
The staggering fall in bee colony numbers has led to warnings about mass starvation.
Without bees, crops and plants would not be pollinated and much of what we eat wouldn't survive, experts say.
The worldwide economic value of their pollination is estimated to be £130billion a year.
Decline: The UK's bee population had dropped by 60 per cent since 1970 after the varroa mite entered Britain
The varroa mite entered Britain in 1992, killing millions of bees. By 2007 the UK's bee population had dropped by 60 per cent since 1970.
And a survey published in May by the British Beekeepers' Association revealed that beekepers lost 17 per cent of their colonies in the past year alone. The mite has also become resistant to chemicals that have controlled it in the past.
Mr Hoskins, who developed an interest in beekeeping at the age of 12 after he was evacuated to live with a beekeeper in Oxfordshire at the start of the Second World War, has spent 18 years researching a mite-resistant breed of bee.
Research: The 79-year-old discovered that one of his hives had far fewer deaths than others because they began to remove the mites through 'grooming'
The former heating engineer from Swindon has lost tens of thousands of bees to the parasitic varroa mite over the years.
During his research he found one of his 80 hives had suffered far fewer mite deaths than the others, he examined the insects and found tiny marks on the bees where the mites had been.
He realised this was because they had begun to 'groom' one another to remove the parasites.
He has now cross-bred his hives so they all contain the 'Swindon honeybee', as he has named it.
He said: 'What I want to do is redevelop the British bee so that it can protect itself against these varroa mites.
'If all the bees in the world die out then we die out - the situation is really that serious.
'Humans are completely reliant on bees for pollinating crops and plants which produce oxygen.
We are hoping that drones from my grooming bees will mate with wandering female virgin queens and spread the footprint across Britain.
'This is not a short-term solution and it will take a lot of work but it could be our only hope of saving the bee.'
Martin Smith, president of the British Beekeepers' Association, said: 'The varroa mite is probably the single most important factor that has caused the reduction in bee numbers worldwide.
'It has now become resistant to chemicals we have used in the past so we are being forced to look into other methods.
'This could be the solution to the problem and it is exciting to hear about his progress.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... z0xbUJqaYU
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alan refail
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Soon be time for the Autumn edition of Bits and Bobs.
The past few days there has been a distinct chill in the morning air and night-time temperatures are down to single figures, though it is forecast to return to more summer-like temperatures later this week - 22C promised for Thursday, which will be about the hottest we've had this "summer".
The fine weather is just right for us. I'm doing the first of my sowings for winter crops this morning (nice and cool for lettuce to germinate). After tomorrow the ymwelwyr (fisitars as they are know locally) will be off home and leaving our fair peninsula to its inhabitants
The past few days there has been a distinct chill in the morning air and night-time temperatures are down to single figures, though it is forecast to return to more summer-like temperatures later this week - 22C promised for Thursday, which will be about the hottest we've had this "summer".
The fine weather is just right for us. I'm doing the first of my sowings for winter crops this morning (nice and cool for lettuce to germinate). After tomorrow the ymwelwyr (fisitars as they are know locally) will be off home and leaving our fair peninsula to its inhabitants
