EPISODE 805 ANDREW SKEOCH AND HIS BEES…NEARLY GOT ME BUT I OUTRAN THEM
alan skeoch
April 24, 2023
If you plan to raise bees then be prepared to get bitten. Bees can be unforgiving if disturbed.
Andrew was fully protected and cautioned me “The bees are going to be angry so do not
get too close.” They got me.
How could I take that advice and at the same time put together a story? Risks of
journalism were faced just to get this story. In the end the bees found me and I had
to run like blazes to escape. A couple landed on my skin but did not have time to bite…to sting.
I did know a little about bee keeping from my failing attempt at bee keeping many
decades ago. My failure may sound humourous but believe me it was not. I became
as angry as the bees.
First , join us as we travel to the bee yard. Over the fields, through the cedar bush,
Crossing our little bridge between two of the ponds, to arrive at the bee yard.
Angry bees
Angry Marjorie…Angry Alan.
Be sure and read he closing story to this Episode.
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DECADES AGO I GOT AS ANGRY AS MY BEES
FLASHBACK
To understand how to raise bees requires hands on experience. So I asked a friend (at the time a friend) to help me.
He was excellent. Told me all the tricks…except for one trick.
“Alan, he dropped in to visit when you were at school.”
“Why?”
“He chased me around the kitchen table…scared me.”
“You must be kidding.”
“No..I do not want him around our house any more.”
So I called him up and raised proper hell. I was as angry as
my bees…moreso. Never heard from him again. That day
ended my bee keeping.. I burned the hive at the back of
our home. Had to do that anyway because it was an old
hive. If you raise bees, used new hives. Mine was infeced
with something called foul brood. Deadly and dangerous
so the bee keeping experience ended.
Andrew is doing a better job than I could do anyway..
alan