My parents have decided to take up bee-keeping.
They're going to a bee auction in Lincoln on Saturday. For some reason, I'm made very happy by the thought that there exists such a thing as a bee auction.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:10,
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I have a sudden urge to go to Lincoln now
and inflate the price of bees artificially by raising my hand at inopportune moments.
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thecrapgatsby isn't listening LALALALALALA, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:13,
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and do you pay per bee, or per 1000 bees, per hive?
The people must be told!
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DrPrunesquallor is determined to post more as of, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:23,
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In my head, it's per bee.
So the auction takes ages as the auctioneer has to do each individually. What with viewing and so on, it gets very complicated.
In reality, I think they sell them per nucleus - that is, queen and retinue (or whatever you call the non-queens in a hive).
How my folks're going to get them from Lincoln back to Stoke is anyone's guess. And is getting bees like getting a cat, in that you have to keep them indoors for a couple of weeks so they don't run off?
Soooooo many questions.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:26,
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Then you train them to walk across your toast,
thereby saving a fortune on knives.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:35,
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haha! Dragons Den
now!
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Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:18,
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YES!
Patent this idea now!
1) Buy bees at auction
2) Butter bees
3) ???
4) PROFIT!
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https://agdev.anr.udel.edu/maarec/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Moving_Bees.pdf
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enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 11:15,
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Wasps are where the real money is these days. As everyone knows
bees make honey but wasps make jam.
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herd of chickens First part only £1.99 and comes with a free, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:42,
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I recognise this joke from somewhere,
though in the version I heard, I think that wasps made mustard.
But it's annoying me now, because I can't remember where I heard it.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:51,
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not heard the mustard one, although I am equally annoyed
as I can't remember where I heard the jam one.
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herd of chickens First part only £1.99 and comes with a free, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 11:07,
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'Time Wasters Letters' book
by Robin Cooper I think - Waspard.
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industrial_bunny, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 11:52,
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Honey is bee vomit. True facts on the internet.
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enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 11:20,
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The neighbours will be delighted
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stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:43,
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Wasted pun opportunity.
*sigh*
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 11:23,
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Poor linesman with the yellow shirt
He must look like a pair of tits to those bees
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:24,
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I'm sure the ref really appreciated that guy putting a blue sheet over the top of him and trpping all the bees onto his head
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Sheriff John Bunnell https://twitter.com/thewonderfulgam, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 10:30,
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Why
did they all lie down and surrender to their bee overlords?
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:40,
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