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azdak at 07:04pm on 31/07/2010
azdak at 07:04pm on 31/07/2010Wolfgang has been complaining for a while that he thinks there are moths in his closet; I privately think small holes in the fabric are what you get if you buy cheap t-shirts from H&M. However, this morning he pulled out a shirt with three dead moths on it, which would seem to be conclusive proof in his favour. I suppose this means we have to buy mothballs, but I have no idea where from.
In other insect news, Wolfgang and Margit, ably assisted by Tashi and her friend Kathi, spent the day extracting honey and ended with a very impressive 30 litres. They haven't got a proper extractor yet, because they're expensive and they've only got three hives so far, so they had to push it through a sieve by hand to separate it from the wax. Fortunately they did this in Margit's kitchen, not ours. Even so, most of the car is lightly coated with honey from when I picked the children up.
Tashi is fascinated by the whole process, so much so that Wolfgang has decided to give her a hive of her own next year. As the average age of Austrian beekeepera is around 70, I confidently expect her to be on the front cover of Beekeepers' Monthly as a thrilling sign of a the new appeal of bees to yoof culture.
The beekeepers at work:
The bees at work (the packet of green stuff on the one bee's legs is pollen - this is a photo from a few weeks ago):
Flan watching:
In other insect news, Wolfgang and Margit, ably assisted by Tashi and her friend Kathi, spent the day extracting honey and ended with a very impressive 30 litres. They haven't got a proper extractor yet, because they're expensive and they've only got three hives so far, so they had to push it through a sieve by hand to separate it from the wax. Fortunately they did this in Margit's kitchen, not ours. Even so, most of the car is lightly coated with honey from when I picked the children up.
Tashi is fascinated by the whole process, so much so that Wolfgang has decided to give her a hive of her own next year. As the average age of Austrian beekeepera is around 70, I confidently expect her to be on the front cover of Beekeepers' Monthly as a thrilling sign of a the new appeal of bees to yoof culture.
The beekeepers at work:
The bees at work (the packet of green stuff on the one bee's legs is pollen - this is a photo from a few weeks ago):
Flan watching: