First Day of Blogging

Here we are....it's a Sunday morning and it's raining for the nth day. Here is the beginning of our blog for bees'n'beans. We are Sue and Mike and amongst other things we are beekeepers. We are also into allotment gardening, fruit tree and orchard renovation, grafting, scything, earth ovens, chickens and stuff like that.

Mike is in the first throes of retiring and wants to spend lots of time beekeeping. He's also putting the final touches on a book about frugal living and steering towards self-sufficiency in the city. Sue is an artist and is into mosaics and painting; her latest projects include hand-painted designer t-shirts.

Things are building up into a new life-pattern for us which includes a beekeeping school for people who want to take a straight-forward course to give them essential knowledge. We will be running a basic course in the spring and if you are interested, get back to us for more info. We are also working on a number of other bee projects including a half-day intro session and an intensive course designed for a group.

Bees'n'beans can be contacted at beesnbeans@yahoo.co.uk .We are in South London (Croydon) and n case you are wondering - apianus has nothing to do with Mike's posterior, it means "lover of bees."

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