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Filling Time …
Les Quatre Vents, Saint-Denis-de-l’Hôtel, France 22nd June 2013 I now know why it has its name. Once the blue skies of 7.00 clouded up completely the wind came and is...
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Back to Normal
Ken and Susan – intrepid beekeepers Les Broux, La Vienne, France 24th June 2013 She’s back! and don’t we know it. Having had a dreadful weekend, wind,...
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Memory Lane
Les Broux, La Vienne, France 26 June 2013 It is really wonderful having the sun back and feeling its warmth on our backs as we fly – not too hot so the drones do not have...
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Cherries Ripe … and Gooseberries … and Blackcurrants
Les Broux, La Vienne, France 27 June 2013 Another beautiful day – dare we hope summer has arrived. Everyone out working – it is getting a bit crowded in here now, hope...
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Flying stinging insects!
Les Broux, La Vienne, France 28th June 2013 Today was the day they decided to come back. It was another beautiful sun filled morning so we were getting on with our lives each with...
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Regicide at Les Broux
Les Broux, La Vienne, France 29th June 2013 Ready for regicide My HERO came today. Must admit his outfit did not really flatter him but he dealt with our worse nightmare – Asiatic...
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A Sewing Bee (keeper’s wife)
Les Broux, La Vienne, France 30th June 2013 There used to be a pop song “Here comes summer” but it would not have applied to yesterday – more like – ‘There goes summer, here...
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Let it be(e), let it be(e)
Les Broux, La Vienne, France 30th June 2013 Here comes the sun, here comes the sun … it’s been a long time coming for sure. But what a difference it makes; everyone is in a...
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The IT Generation
Les Broux, La Vienne, France 3rd July 2013 Please understand, I am not complaining, but it is really frustrating at times when things beyond your control are not done properly....
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“Sans Permis”– no licence needed
Les Broux, La Vienne, France 4th July 2013 I wonder if the bees in America notice anything different about today? Or is it just the usual grind although I suspect there are...
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Grand Designs
Les Broux, La Vienne, France 5th July 2013 Bonjour, ça va? Good morning, O.K.? After all, I am French – not one of these several generation Italian immigrants – (which...
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Purple and Green
Clemitis and Honeysuckle Les Boux, La Vienne, France 7th July 2013 Bee back later. Les Broux Bees Correspondent There are some days, it does not matter how much you plan before...
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Visitors
Les Broux, La Vienne, France. 8th July 2013 Suddenly this place is crowded with “foreign” bees – they have even taken up residence in the chimney of “their” house. Not...
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À Vendre!
Les Broux, La Vienne, France 11th July 2013 “They came back again on Tuesday, much as we knew they were going to – but it has been so hot could not be bothered to make...
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Poetry and Power of Communication
Les Broux, La Vienne, France 12th July 2013 Another hot day, but the food is coming in thick and fast – the sweet chestnut trees are in flower. I always...
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Bastille Day – Parades and Flags and Fireworks
Laval, Le Mayenne, France 14th July 2013 “She’s” off again on one of her weekends, left on Friday and did not even bother to visit us and say goodby, just up and left. Not that we...
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Surviving a near death experience
Les Broux, La Vienne, France 15th July 2013 We are now fully cranked up to work – the sunflowers are out in the field next door, it is non stop from now on as we deal with...
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“Steeple-chasing our way to the promise(d)-land”
Les Broux, La Vienne, France 17th July 2013 Work, work, work – but not far to fly, now I understand the expression “busy bee”. Les Broux Bees Correspondent A string...
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To “Shoulder” on..
Les Broux, La Vienne, France. 19th July 2013 Bees on the lavender All the lavender bushes around her flower garden are in bloom – heaven for some of the foragers whilst the others “do” the...
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Introducing Inigo Jones
Les Broux, La Vienne, France 21st July 2013 Feeling quite smug, although a little sorry, for the chimney colony; we heard they have had part of the hive collapse...
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