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 Topic: Top bar beehive |
Mistress Rose
Replies: 13
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 Forum: The Apiary Posted: Fri Feb 26, 21 8:25 am Subject: Top bar beehive |
| I agree with Treacodactyl. The bees might not like the smell inside the hive. |
| Topic: Wildlife |
Mistress Rose
Replies: 1300
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Wed Feb 24, 21 8:38 am Subject: Wildlife |
| I know our woodpeckers sound completely different when feeding. For calling, they make drumming noises, but when feeding they are making individual tapping noises as they tap the tree for insect galle ... |
| Topic: Wildlife |
Mistress Rose
Replies: 1300
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Tue Feb 23, 21 8:08 am Subject: Wildlife |
| We were cutting birch again yesterday; last week for it as a few trees are starting to break bud. There was a woodpecker drumming virtually all day, but for some reason it sounded rather high pitched. ... |
| Topic: the bear, the woods, there was confusion |
Mistress Rose
Replies: 8
Views: 131
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Mon Feb 22, 21 8:25 am Subject: the bear, the woods, there was confusion |
| I agree that was the main problem. Every so often we get more than a few inches of snow in the southern part of the UK which causes some problems. I have heard that if you have really bad snow, you ju ... |
| Topic: Exciting news |
Mistress Rose
Replies: 363
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Mon Feb 22, 21 8:20 am Subject: Exciting news |
| As the fleece I have been trying to spin is so felted that I can't tear it sometimes, I wonder if cutting it into rings for the garden might be a better use. It is still very much 'in the grease' so ... |
| Topic: Exporting |
Mistress Rose
Replies: 89
Views: 5779
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Mon Feb 22, 21 8:17 am Subject: Exporting |
| Slim, yes. A public school in the UK is the top notch type of private school. Sadly, education has been messed up here as much as many other things, but basically we have a free education system that ... |
| Topic: the bear, the woods, there was confusion |
Mistress Rose
Replies: 8
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Sun Feb 21, 21 9:07 am Subject: the bear, the woods, there was confusion |
It did say that in the article. Not really surprising that Alaska was warmer than Texas, as it was very cold there recently.
Has the cold weather come as far north as you Slim? They said it was go ... |
| Topic: the bear, the woods, there was confusion |
Mistress Rose
Replies: 8
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Sat Feb 20, 21 8:13 am Subject: the bear, the woods, there was confusion |
| I had a friend who was terrified of rats in the toilet, but that is rather an odd one. Thank goodness we don't (often) have wildlife like that in the UK. As you say, funny, but could have been serious ... |
| Topic: Ground Source Heat Pumps...are they worth it? |
Mistress Rose
Replies: 21
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Sat Feb 20, 21 8:07 am Subject: Ground Source Heat Pumps...are they worth it? |
| I'm not going to criticise your decision Roobarb; that is up to you, but I have a feeling, perhaps ill founded, that particulates are the 'in thing' at the moment as we haven't been able to trace them ... |
| Topic: Top bar beehive |
Mistress Rose
Replies: 13
Views: 279
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Forum: The Apiary Posted: Sat Feb 20, 21 7:52 am Subject: Top bar beehive |
Looking at our hives again, we do use metal on the roofs of most of them, but the rest, being WRC is untreated in general, although some people do paint their hive.
If there are other beekeepers a ... |
| Topic: Ground Source Heat Pumps...are they worth it? |
Mistress Rose
Replies: 21
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Fri Feb 19, 21 8:24 am Subject: Ground Source Heat Pumps...are they worth it? |
| Do you just have one Slim, and if so, which room does it vent into? |
| Topic: Top bar beehive |
Mistress Rose
Replies: 13
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Forum: The Apiary Posted: Fri Feb 19, 21 8:20 am Subject: Top bar beehive |
Some people do that in the UK too Slim, but WRC is preferred.
Having a mentor is always useful; husband had one, as well as a bit of help from his father who had kept bees years before, when he sta ... |
| Topic: Exciting news |
Mistress Rose
Replies: 363
Views: 769200
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Fri Feb 19, 21 8:13 am Subject: Exciting news |
| If you have any farms or smallholders near you, you could ask them if they will sell you a poor quality fleece, or ask for 'skirtings'; at least that is what we call them round here. It is the stuff t ... |
| Topic: Exporting |
Mistress Rose
Replies: 89
Views: 5779
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Forum: Small Business Questions, Ideas and Advice Posted: Fri Feb 19, 21 8:09 am Subject: Exporting |
Hope it goes well. International fame.  |
| Topic: Ground Source Heat Pumps...are they worth it? |
Mistress Rose
Replies: 21
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Thu Feb 18, 21 4:40 pm Subject: Ground Source Heat Pumps...are they worth it? |
I thought you would have been aware of that Tahir, but I get the impression that particularly retro-fit doesn't take it into account, and to my mind it is more important than sealing the house.
Wh ... |
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