I had been asked by two of my regular honey customers, Gwen and Eddie whether Gwen's son in law could have a look at my bees. We arranged for him to come to look at the "Home Apiary" at Perkins Parade around 9 on Wednesday morning. These days the home apiary is the only apiary, lol!! How times have changed....
Now one day is the much the same as the next so I had forgotten the day I'd arranged for the visit was New Year's Day and I'd had a fairly late night watching the excesses of the New Years Eve extravaganza on Sydney Harbour on the TV. It seems like an awful waste of money for something that can't be great for the environment to me but I guess I'm just getting old!
With the help of Phil, who is interested in becoming an amateur apiarist when he returns home, we managed to take enough supers of Ironbark (Eucalyptus Paniculata) honey
After a successful morning when we put the full supers of honey above escape boards and we returned to the apiary later in the afternoon and loaded the honey into the multi-purpose vehicle to transport it to my mother's extracting plant (my old honey house) ready to extract the next day after my gym session at Bay St.
The extract went fairly well but working in a hot extracting shed is not the ideal thing for a Person with MS so I returned home rather fatigued and fairly useless but I'mmmmm looking forward to
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