- Joined
- Apr 15, 2009
- Messages
- 1,237
- Reaction score
- 8
- Location
- South Cheshire
- Hive Type
- Commercial
- Number of Hives
- Lots of Commercial hives.......
Dear All,
Logging on to this forum during the last week or two has been nothing short of painful, as I am sure most of the regular punters will agree. I used to enjoy a bit of banter and the aptitude for education, teaching and learning that was once displayed here at no expense. There are plenty of generous and experienced souls on here who give advice even when they don't really have to take the time to reply.
That is something for which we should all feel grateful as a collective.
Bickering, back-biting, never-ending complaints, snappy retorts and goodness knows whatever else seem to have cropped up during almost every other post and appear now to be the 'norm', with new posts sometimes even being created just to continue an argument.
Lord knows what impression this gives to new, hobbyist beekeepers and those who might be visiting to fact-find ahead of contemplating joining our craft.
We have all suffered the most atrocious 2012 season and subsequent lengthy winter. Many have lost colonies that they have painfully nurtured during the in-season months and it is no fun having sets backs and feeling that everything is against you. But it happens. That is the craft. I myself have lost a number of colonies over the Winter having spent not an insignificant amount of money feeding them in to the autumn and throughout. I am also no expert beekeeper and although I strive to be a better one, I still make stupid mistakes on occasions.
The weather forecasts are showing an upturn over the next 10 days and things will doubtless improve this 'virtual' environment.
Please please please, exercise some patience and think before you start typing away on here before we degenerate in to a vacuous environment that serves no purpose but only to insult and upset.
Thank you
HH
Logging on to this forum during the last week or two has been nothing short of painful, as I am sure most of the regular punters will agree. I used to enjoy a bit of banter and the aptitude for education, teaching and learning that was once displayed here at no expense. There are plenty of generous and experienced souls on here who give advice even when they don't really have to take the time to reply.
That is something for which we should all feel grateful as a collective.
Bickering, back-biting, never-ending complaints, snappy retorts and goodness knows whatever else seem to have cropped up during almost every other post and appear now to be the 'norm', with new posts sometimes even being created just to continue an argument.
Lord knows what impression this gives to new, hobbyist beekeepers and those who might be visiting to fact-find ahead of contemplating joining our craft.
We have all suffered the most atrocious 2012 season and subsequent lengthy winter. Many have lost colonies that they have painfully nurtured during the in-season months and it is no fun having sets backs and feeling that everything is against you. But it happens. That is the craft. I myself have lost a number of colonies over the Winter having spent not an insignificant amount of money feeding them in to the autumn and throughout. I am also no expert beekeeper and although I strive to be a better one, I still make stupid mistakes on occasions.
The weather forecasts are showing an upturn over the next 10 days and things will doubtless improve this 'virtual' environment.
Please please please, exercise some patience and think before you start typing away on here before we degenerate in to a vacuous environment that serves no purpose but only to insult and upset.
Thank you
HH