What a lovely time of year May is… no better time to be talking about our wonderful honeybees. Looking forward to meeting these ladies!
Christine Crease - Little Chalfont Knitting Group -
Little Chalfont Library, Cokes Lane, Little Chalfont Bucks, HP7 9QA
Chalfont St Peter Church of England Academy
Bethany Gilbert b-gilbert@cspacademy.org.uk 01753 883982
Penn Road, Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks, SL9 9SS
What a lovely time of year to be talking about the honeybees. The gardens and meadows are full of flowers for our wonderful pollinators to be working on. Very much looking forward to meeting all the ladies at this WI.
Absolutely delighted to have been invited to give a talk at Leominster Library. Leominster is my nearest home town and I’m eager to create a buzz about honeybees so close to home!
LEOMINSTER LIBRARY
8 BUTTERCROSS, LEOMINSTER HR6 8BN
BOOKING TICKETS TO BE ADVISED
Very much looking forward to meeting the ladies of St. Catherines Blackewell WI. Hopefully the weather will be better this year than 2023 and the bees will be simply buzzing with excitement with all the wonderful swathes of lavender and abundance of June flowers in peoples gardens. In June the honeybees rely on keen gardeners to supply them with the blooms they need as nature, naturally, has a gap in June as we cross over from Spring to Summer!
Alfrick Village Hall, Clay Green, Alfrick, WR6 5HJ,
Carol Boughton - President
UNITED REFORM CHURCH HALL
Worcester Rd, Malvern Link WR14 1SS
Anne Noble - President
Looking forward to meeting the ladies at The Chaddesley Corbett WI. September is an interesting time for the honeybees, the drones are being kicked out, oh yes far more dramatic than being asked to leave, they workers literally throw them out and won’t allow them back in! Why, coz they’ve done their work and will add nothing more to the colony other than eat up the stores! The queen is slowing down on her laying and they are getting themselves ready for the winter months ahead!
Booked a year ago to the date on a balmy September afternoon. All the supers have been removed and honey spun. Bees are feasting on the Autumn Ivy preparing themselves for the winter months ahead. Very much looking forward to meeting these ladies!
What a beautiful part of the country. Looking forward to meeting the ladies of Clent WI to talk all things honeybees.
September and the hives are preparing for autumn. The queen is slowing down and the drones are being ‘asked’ to leave! However, this queen bee is still going strong and looking forward to creating a buzz about the honeybees to these lovely ladies!
HEREFORDSHIRE WI
HEREFORD FOOTBALL CUB -EDGAR STREET. HEREFORD. HR4 9JU
BARBARA GLASSPOOLE - barbara.glasspoole@gmail.com
“THE IMPORTANCE OF BEES TO ORCHARDS”
GRANGE COURT
PINSLEY ROAD, LEOMINSTER, HR6 8NL
TICKET BOOKING TO BE ADVISED.
ST. MICHAEALS WI
MAREEN ROBINSON - maureenr43@btinternet.com
ST MICHAELS VILLAGE HALL, WR15 8TG.
March 26th… somehow has a lovely ring to it. It makes you truly feel like spring is under way. The queen will be laying again, after the long winter months, and the new generation is on its way. I love talking about honeybees any time, any place, anywhere…. but early spring is just a little bit special as we all come out of the dark and into the light! I’m sure the members of this club are feeling the same as they see the wonderful flowers popping their heads out towards the spring sunshine… whoopee!
Diana Edwards - Secretary
Blakedown Parish Rooms…18 Bellbroughton Road, Blakedown, Kidderminster, DY10 3JG
Absolutely thrilled to have been asked to give a talk to this wonderful charity in Amersham, Buckinghamshire.
We all know honeybees provide us with a healthy diet but did you know people have used honeybee related products for medicanal purposes? It has ever been thus for thousands of years. Honey, pollen, propolis, all products produced by the honeybees, contain antioxidant, anitmicrobial, antiinflammatory and anti cancer properties.
So not only are the honeybees providing us with a healthy diet they are also important when it comes to treating wide variety of health conditions!
Long live the honeybees… long live us all!
JUBILEE HALL AMERSHAM HP7 0BT
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM SCANNAPPEAL.ORG.UK OR CALL 01494 734 161
As I sit and type this entry into my events page it’s just under a year away… but that doesn’t stop me, for one second, looking forward to meeting these ladies. In April the bees, weather permitting, are flying and gathering the pollen and nectar required to get the generation going. Last year April was terrible for the bees, let’s hope this April will be better!
Looking forward t meeting these lovely ladies.. April, always a tricky month for the honeybees. As always lots to talk about!
So pleased to have been asked to give a talk about the honeybees here in my local village. Cannot wait to leave them simply buzzing!
Looking forward to meeting the members of The Burwarton & District Gardening Club. I think I’d better brush up on my bee plant knowledge before I go!
March… one of my favourite times of the year. We’re in to spring, the trees are starting to bloom all around and the daffodils, snowdrops, roses, primroses are all well on their way! The honeybees are busy gathering the nectar and pollen they need for the coming year. So much to talk about and who better than to a gardening club? Really looking forward to meeting the ladies of The Knucklas Gardening Club and talking all things honeybees!
Eardisley CE Primary School
Hereford HR3 6NS
MONMOUTH LIBRARY
Do you ever wonder what it’s like to be an author? Four members, including myself, of The Marchers Authors will be giving a talk about being authors, their books and doing book signings. For more information visit https://marchersauthorsont.wixsite.com/marchers-authors and visit their events page.
THR ROLLS HALL, WHITECROSS STREET, MONMOUTH. NP25 3BY
Delighted to be a part of this great show again this year. Watch out for my stand. For the children’s colouring competition and of course my talk on Uganda!
Looking forward to meeting these ladies and talking all things honeybees. Our girls may be still inside keeping their queen fed and warm but I am definitely out and about attending events and creating a buzz about the honeybees!
Thrilled to have been invited to give a talk to The Herefordshire Flower Guild. It may be a cold time of year but we all need cheering up just after the hectic christmas season and what better subject to put a smile on everyone’s faces than the honeybees and of course wonderful gardens!
Very much looking forward to meeting the members of the Orleton & District Gardening Club. It may be November and the honeybees will be huddled around their queen but there’s still so much to talk about! Never lost for words when it comes to the honeybees, whatever the time of year!
This gig has been a long time coming! Booked in March 2022! Very much looking forward to chatting to all the keen gardeners about the honeybees. Maybe they can teach me a little something about plants and bees that I don’t know about!
Delighted to be a part of the 100 year celebration of The National Honey Show. This is at Sandown Park Racecourse. It’s a wonderful event. Beekeeper or not… come along and join us. So many wonderful things to see. You can attend lectures and classes or just revel in all things honeybee! We’ll make a beekeeper of you yet!
This is very exciting. The First Independent Book Fair to be held in Stroud and I’m delighted to say I’m going to be a part of it! More details to follow…
Absolutely love it when I’m invited by Men’s clubs to come and give a talk about the homeybees! Looking forward to meeting the gentlemen at this club, having lunch with them and then talking all things honeybees!
Delighted to be going to talk all things honeybees to the U3A in Leominster. In September the honeybees are busy preparing themselves for the winter months ahead. The drones, (male bees), will be all but disappeared leaving the workers, (female bees), to get on with things!
I’m always very professional and like to look up the people to whom I’ve been invited to give a talk.about the honeybees so I can familiarise myself with them. Imagine my thoughts… this is one of the first photographs I saw and and an absolute must for the events page! Now, who wouldn’t be looking forward to meeting this lot? I know I am! So lets get talking ladies; my first question has to be…”what was going on???!!!”
The bees will be hunkering down now for the winter months ahead, but not so The Orleton Wi!; we will be busy chatting about all things honeybees and creating a buzz in my neighbouring village!
How truly honoured I am to have been invited to, and be a part of, the Charles Butler 400th Anniversary Celebrations in his pastoral home of Wootton St Lawrence in Basingstoke. I will be giving talks about the honeybees, doing book readings and signings over the two day celebrations.
Who is Charles Butler I hear you ask?
Charles Butler (1571 – 29 March 1647), sometimes called the Father of English Beekeeping, was a logician, grammarist, author, priest (Vicar of Wootton St Lawrence, near Basingstoke, England), and an influential beekeeper.
Follow this link Charles Butler and you can see all the details of the event.
Looking forward to meeting the Ladies at The Chatterbrook WI and taking them through the life cycle of a honeybee inside and outside of the hive. With it being the middle of summer the honeybees will be in their gardens making their presence known, so lots of questions I hoped will be asked!
Let’s fill this gorgeous space with lots of children all eager to learn about the honeybees! I will be there telling the children all about the honeybees inside and outside of the hive and signing copies of my books.
I will be at this wonderful event along with many others who are interested in conservation! Come and join us. I’ll have a stall where I’ll be signing books and I’ll also be giving a talk about the… honeybees of course!!!
Absolutely delighted to have been invited back to Chalfont St Peter CE Academy for the third time in 6 years! A fabulous school with a deep interest in nature and of course our wonderful honeybees!
Delighted to have been invited to give a talk to the members of the U3A in Ross-on-Wye. June is one of my favourite months of the year, we’re heading for summer, some of the hives are swarming and the honeybees are busy in amongst the lavender along with all the bumble bees!
Having been unable to give my talk to these lovely ladies in July last year, I’m really looking forward to meeting them and thanking them for their patience. The honeybees are quiet but the same cannot be said for me! Lots to talk about and fun to be had!
Looking forward to meeting the younger children @ Moor Park School in Ludlow who are learning about our wildlife and what better subject could you have than our wonderful honeybees. I will also be telling the mythaogical story of how the honeybee got her sting!
Come and join us at The Great Big Green Week at Bwlch Village Hall. I will talking all things honeybees and what a lovely time of year to be talking about the bees. They will be in full swing, or should I say flight and I cannot wait to share my love of the bees with these wonderful people.
Delighted to be joining the members of the Rhosgoch Gardening club for a talk about the honeybees at the Rhosgoch Golf club! It’s May and the bees should be very busy and maybe even starting to think about swarming! A very busy time of the year for beekeepers and the honeybees!
