Cussword
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Just read the Daily Mail, how many of you are members of the BBA?
Amateur beekeepers ‘causing urban swarms’
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British Beankeepers Association... was OK until a breakaway group the French Runner Bean Keepers Association was formed and started waffling on about F1 Hybrid Beans being the only beans that should be kept!
Let alone the Vine beans ! has beans.. string beans......
Yeghes da
Thymallus
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And where exactly are any posts that suggest this? I'll bet you a Brussel sprout you can't find any...unless quoted out of context.
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British Bankers? some merchant bankers I guess.
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It's not my fault if a colony swarms into a house where once stood a tree that bees liked to hang out. 
Even the best of us loose a swarm now and then.
Even the best of us loose a swarm now and then.
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No hope of that - thank goodness.
Utterly unenfoceable.
Only a statist with a Napoleon complex would suggest it
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No hope of that - thank goodness.
Utterly unenfoceable.
Only a statist with a Napoleon complex would suggest it
Not if the neighbours or beeks inform on you. People complain about children playing in the garden, music, parking etc etc. They would soon check out if you had a licence if they did not like bees, and let's face it not everyone does.
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Do you honestly think HMG is going to set up a whole new administration just to licence beekeepers? get real!
Registration maybe, nothing against that, most of us are on beebase anyway. But compulsory qualifications,certification etc. just to satisfy those with a certificate fetish!! Dream on.
Registration maybe, nothing against that, most of us are on beebase anyway. But compulsory qualifications,certification etc. just to satisfy those with a certificate fetish!! Dream on.
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Perhaps if we identichipped each bee?
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Wasn't there somebody who sprayed some smart water into their hive so they could prove the bees were their bees if the colony got stolen?
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that's what they did with bees at the National Bee Unit, stuck an RFID chip, e.g. oyster card chip on the bees.....
they all left the hive......but they didn't come back!
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They could be DNA tested to find out whose bees pood on the neighbours washing.
Bees must be kept on a lead in public areas.
Bees must be kept on a lead in public areas.
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I think they are taking free rides on my double deckers and the never touch in either lol
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you've got buses?
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I would hazard that a few commercial guys around here who have out apiaries scattered about lose a fair few too.
A chap I know has six on his land and collected four swarms from them last year.
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Yep...and bloody buse lanes..
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No Intention Finman. In fact if you hadn't quoted his post I wouldn't have known he was still insulting me.
As they say bean there, done it, bought the T-shirt. Lifes too short to waste on dishcloths.
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Not aware that anywhere have I insulted this person........just a reference to the fact that he pathetically continues to use the childish schoolyard and to him supposedly amusing variations of my screen name.
