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Good afternoon on 75th VE Day lockdown & exercise

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Sepsur
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Hi Everyone

I spent this morning tending to my girls - all 50,000 give or take ( ๐Ÿ)

I had a new hive arrive yesterday & had to split them immediately because there were queen cells - suggesting theyโ€™d swarm. So 2 hives suddenly became 5. They are really chilled gentle bees which is a joy.

I know many of you are highly active & super human but for any struggling with mobility - here is a link to 2 x different workouts specifically for folk coming through rehab after critical care. Our support group commissioned them. Happy can lifting people ๐Ÿ˜€

icustepschester.org/exercis...

PS A super human version will follow soon

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Nice one Sepsur...we canโ€™t all sprint!

Weโ€™ve just got a colony of bumblebees take a home in a bird box in our garden. Apparently itโ€™s quite rare so we are happy to have them ๐Ÿ˜Š

Newdawn

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Sepsur in reply to Newdawn

A while ago - I worked on an abandoned farm which had numerous bird tables, nesting boxes & those stands with a bird house on top. I had never seen bumble bees behaving like honey bees until that moment - proper active hives

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Psmithuk

Thanks, Sepsur. You are going to bee busy!

Also thanks for the exercises, which look good.

I turn to a YouTube video of Tai Chi exercises three or four times a week. There are lots there, but my favourite are the gentle Perth Academy 18 exercises, which takes less than 15 minutes. There are many other Tai Chi videos on You Tube.

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Sepsur in reply to Psmithuk

๐Ÿ˜€ - yes - itโ€™s been lovely - the little patch of orchard is an oasis - Iโ€™d move in if I could, full of birdsong & chatter, no engine noises - just church bells & buzzing whilst Hibernian sheep graze around.

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Kokobean in reply to Sepsur

Your description is even relaxing. Iโ€™d move there too.๐Ÿฅฐ

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Sepsur in reply to Kokobean

๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ’•

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cajunjeff

Very cool Sepsur. I have been passing my time reading The Great Gatsbee, listening to Beeyonce tunes and hoping my trip to Stingapore next year doesnโ€™t get cancelled.

I hope all your bees are beehaving, particularly the baybees. Maybee by the time they grow up it will be safe to put them on the school buzz ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ. ๐Ÿ™ˆ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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Sepsur in reply to cajunjeff

Well I know who Iโ€™m not asking to babybee sit.

Youโ€™ll bee a bad influence, I can tell

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Ghounds in reply to cajunjeff

๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

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MsLockYourPostsPassed Volunteer in reply to cajunjeff

Bad, Jeff! Really bad! Just the kind of thing we need now for a laugh! Gotta keep laughing!

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JigFettlerVolunteer

My father kept bees. A thing of my childhood. Rescuing swarms. Lots of fresh honey.

These social insects are a natural phenomenon.

The drones get a bit of a hard deal tho? ๐Ÿ˜‰

Jig

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Sepsur in reply to JigFettler

Well... you could say they get it cushy for a bit since they do nothing but donate a bit of dna

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Peggy4

Ooh, your own honey, how lovely!๐Ÿ๐Ÿ

Peggy ๐Ÿ˜€

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Sepsur in reply to Peggy4

They are all over the wisteria at present ๐Ÿ˜€

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Peggy4 in reply to Sepsur

Gosh what a lovely sight and I imagine smell too.

Peggy ๐Ÿ˜€

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Sepsur in reply to Peggy4

Iโ€™ve been trying to sort these hives out for 2yrs since my Mum died. I was confined to barracks with another infection - she died in unexplained circumstances the other end of the country. The coroner finally released her body a month later.

By then her bees had gone. I then eventually collected her hives a year later but it was too late in the year to establish bees. Finally I set hives in a lovely little orchard 1/4m away and next minute I was really ill again - pleural effusion and all - more delays. Lockdown made getting hold of bees really hard until a saviour came on the scene. My new bees are getting on really well. My Mum would be thrilled.

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Peggy4

Thatโ€™s so lovely, a nice reminder of your mum.

Peggy โค๏ธ

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Sepsur in reply to Peggy4

It was very moving today with the Church bells behind - the orchard is in the back of the Rectory

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Peggy4

Sounds perfect and fitting for today.

Peggy ๐Ÿ˜€

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4Glory

Bee keeping! A noble activity for sure! Raw honey for sale or give away, I presume? I hope the harvest is great!

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Sepsur in reply to 4Glory

Probably give to well deserving friends ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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4Glory in reply to Sepsur

Sweet!!!

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