Rain Stopped Play

Regular readers will have noticed that there haven't been any updates for the last three weeks.  This is not a mistake, neither is it (surprisingly) down to laziness on my part.  Simply put, it has been raining in Bath.

Really, since the middle of July we have barely had a dry day here - and certainly the weekends have been too wet to open the hives.  So, I have had to leave the bees to it.

At least the rain has been providing plenty of sustenance for the flowers, and there are lots in bloom at the moment.  Here's a picture from a meadow near Coombe Down which I took last weekend:

And these bees are foraging on a neighbour's Echinops:

Hopefully the weather will be dry enough this weekend for me to open up the hives.  Who knows, there may even be some honey...?