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Update – Scolton meeting for “Improvers” on Sunday 20th June

apiarymanager PBKA, Scolton Beekeeping Centre, Training

We will be recommencing beekeeping meetings for Improvers (PBKA members only) at the Pembrokeshire Beekeeping Centre, Scolton Manor, on Sunday 20th June, commencing at 2pm.

(Note that the next meeting for Beginners, (PBKA members only) will be on Sunday 27th June at the Rhos apiary). Contact Jeremy for details.

N.B. In order to maintain social distancing, we will assemble outside the Honey Kitchen. Please ensure you bring a suitable face covering also. For further details on Covid regulations in Wales, please see this link.

So put a note in your diary and be sure to bring a brolly, as the weather looks as though it may be somewhat damp on Sunday!

INVITATION FROM ABERYSTWYTH BKA

apiarymanager Events, PBKA

Please do join Aberystwyth and District Beekeepers for a talk by Derek Mitchell titled “Ventilation why and why not” this Tuesday evening at 7pm.

Aberystwyth Meeting Tue, Jun 15, 2021 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (BST) 
Please join the meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone. https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/453086181
You can also dial in using your phone. United Kingdom: +44 20 3713 5011
Access Code: 453-086-181
New to GoToMeeting? Get the app now and be ready when your first meeting starts: https://global.gotomeeting.com/install/453086181

Dai Thomas – an appreciation

apiarymanager PBKA, Stories of Interest

It is not often in life that one has the good fortune to come across an unsung hero.
Dai Thomas was such a man. The epitome of that quiet, unassuming beekeeper, entirely in tune with his bees, always respecting their endeavours and treating them gently and patiently.
He was my mentor in beekeeping and I will always treasure not only his technical expertise but equally importantly his teaching in terms of taking your time, looking for what the bees will tell you in a colony and going about inspections in a quiet and methodical manner.
He was also one of the few folk I know, and not only in beekeeping that didn’t consider knowledge as a possession, to be guarded and kept to oneself.
He was free with all of those little nuggets of information, gleaned over decades of beekeeping and shared without a second thought.
In the hustle and bustle of modern life, we are sometimes apt to forget that beekeeping is a hobby, to be enjoyed, to be savoured and one that gives us fortunate few the opportunity to get closer to nature than most other people.
I’m not sure we will ever see the likes of Dai again. We can only strive to be as good a beekeeper as he was, to be as kind and thoughtful towards the natural world in general and bees in particular as he was and to ensure that his legacy lives on in all of us whenever we put on a beesuit.
– Jeremy