I really enjoyed the AGM on Wednesday and what an ace film (The Vanishing Of The Bees), I recommend it to those who weren't able to make it...it's eye opening. We mentioned how bees are starting to swarm now (during breaks in the rain) so I thought I would share a picture of me and my friend on our way to catch one...

Here is a lovely poem by Carol Ann Duffy too....

The Hive

All day we leave and arrive at the hive,
concelebrants.The hive is love,
what we serve, preserve, avowed in Latin murmurs
as we come and go, skydive, freighted
with light, to where we thrive, us, in time's hum,
on history's breath,
                      industrious, identical...

there suck we,
alchemical, nectar-slurred, pollen-furred,
the world's mantra us, our blurry sound
along the thousand scented miles to the hive,
haven, where we unpack our foragers;
or heaven stare, drone eyed, for a queen's start;
or nurse or build in milky, waxy caves,
the hive, alive, us - how we behave.