Bee Update & Tuesday Night Sewing

Our visiting bees are still enjoying their stay with us and Paul is completely obsessed with checking what they are up to, he is convinced that they are all living in the dip of the roof under the chimney stack which is just out of sight even when you (HE) is perched precariously up a ladder. As they are no longer coming down the chimney and really aren't bothering us we are letting them enjoy their little stay with us until

1. they decide to buzz off.
2. they become a health hazard and need to be dealt with asap. or
3. Paul suddenly decides he would like a new pet (or pets) and buys a hive!!!

I can't see it being number three as bees and wasps seem to like my husband a little too much and give him a bit of a sting to show how much they care!!!

Right that's enough about bees as most of you know Tuesday night is sewing night with my friend Ruth where we chat, eat Frutella chewy sweets, put the world to rights (gossip) and even manage to fit in some sewing...

We continued with our hexies tonight and have sewn quite a few together now both of us learning lots of new techniques along the way. I even managed to finish off a couple of swap goodies (sorry no pics as my swap partners might be peeping in). So hopefully next Tuesday we will be able to start on the cushion itself and I promise to take some pictures to show you our progress.

Okay that's me done for tonight, I seem to have broken outlook express so can't access my emails, blogger won't let me comment on any one's blog and I can't decide whether it was the right thing to do to let my mr site website lapse and just concentrate on my on line selling sites (which I have just realised are all completely empty so I really must get my finger out and put some stuff up for sale!!!)

Good Night All!!!!

As Busy as a BEE.......

Or in this case as busy as several thousand bees...!



On Friday afternoon I went into Rachel's room to find about 20-30 honey bees dozily try to make their way to her window, they had come into her room via the fireplace, which we had boarded up due to a similar problem with wasps late last summer (we were advised that as it was nearly the end of the season they would just go away).
I let all the bees out of the window and went to look at the chimney stack to see that several hundred bees were swarming about up their.
Speaking to our neighbours we found out that they had lots of wasps in their front room too so we decided to light a fire in the living room and Rachel's room to see if we could get them to move on.
This seemed to work as the numbers died down, so we boarded up Rachel's fireplace again and kept a fire going in the living room.
All good so far we thought...
that was until Saturday when Rachel said "Whats that?" looking out of the window we saw thousands of bees swarming around the trees and bushes on our boundary, with a mad dash we all ran around closing the windows and doors as quickly as we could.
Within minutes they all seemed to have disappeared Paul went out into the farmers field to see if he could see them and this is what he saw


How amazing is that - I just couldn't resist getting a photograph or two!!

Our neighbour spoke with pest control from the council who said that they were scout bees around the chimney and that they were looking for somewhere to stop and that they would all probably move on from the tree.

Well the good news was that in the evening they did decide to move on but the bad news was that they only got as far as the chimney stack...

A swarm of bees generates a terrifying noise and we made another made dash around the house to close the windows for the second time.

We also lit more fires adding yew tree branches to give off lots of smoke.

Today we think they may have finally buzzed off as there is no sign of them on the chimney stack, haven't checked the tree yet but fingers crossed they have found somewhere nicer to live!!!.