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<\/p>\nOver the Christmas break i spent time with my bees.<\/p>\n
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Here are some of my hives, my 4yo daughter helped paint one of them (we did it before the bees were in it).\u00a0 I have had bees for nearly 9 years but i only feel like i am beginning to get the hang of it recently. I have had lots of failures\u2014hives dying over winter, lost swarms, boxes falling apart\u2014and collected a few stings along the way. But nothing too bad, the worst sting was actually when my son got one on the eye when we were collecting a nuc from bindaree<\/a>\u00a0and he was quite young (it didn’t put him off bees, he still helps out), and my daughter burnt her hand quite badly touching a smoker one year. But i’m fine. We have always had plenty of honey and wax candles and all that fun stuff. I’m beginning to feel like i understand their moods, and am developing a feeling for how you can interact with a hive without it getting too upset. There is something to be said for the wisdom of bees. This spring i split some hives and am watching them very closely as they raise a new queen and she heads out to mate. This weekend i will open them up and discover if she has been successful. The young queen mates with a few dozen drones in a mad frenzy over a few days, then keeps their sperm in a sack for the rest of her life while she ignores men and lays thousands of eggs that mostly grow into female workers for her hive. It’s a sort of perfect society.<\/p>\n The other preoccupation these holidays apart from my lovely family, have been C\u00e9line<\/a>, Lawrence Durrell<\/a>\u00a0(both present a kind of dated version of the Earth, still educational, and difficult\u2014not to enter the house, which is perfectly inviting\u2014just to come to terms with it), and a renewed interest in electric guitar noise effects\u2014i am playing now through two amps, the signal split, one with a wow pedal and the other with a pedal that changes the delay, then i play away at both while pumping the pedals.. lots of fuzz.. silicon and germ.. and reverb all sloshed in.. it’s an interesting sound i’m going to get a loop pedal and make it even more dense and layered and the drop some lyric into the mix.\u00a0 That’s my plan this year… a big plan!<\/p>\n Happy New Year everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the Christmas break i spent time with my bees. Here are some of my hives, my 4yo daughter helped paint one of them (we did it before the bees were in it).\u00a0 I have had bees for nearly 9 years but i only feel like i am beginning to get the hang of it … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inchiki-news","category-music","category-whimsy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.forkword.com\/plog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ROXY3223-320x234.jpg\")