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Chickens in a tree Latest Walrus News I don't know why, but this tickled me. A couple of enterprising chickens managed to hop onto the tree. They were furiously pecking at the green leaves, the only green things available at…

1 Jan 22 Walrus

Happy New Year

Happy New Year 2022 Thanks to everybody who reads this blog. I enjoy writing it and sharing whatever is exercising my tiny grey cells at the time of writing. I still suffer from some lingering COVID symptoms, but they seem…

25 Apr 19 Walrus

Diary of a Beekeeping Walrus

Apple Watch Screen Am I Dying? For the last seven months, perhaps coincidentally since my Dad died, I have been having strange aches and pains in my chest and back. I'm okay with pain, mostly, but when I don't understand…

21 May 18 Walrus

Busy as a Beekeeper

Here in my part of England, the weather is currently absolutely perfect, and we have shaken off the oppressive depressed state induced by a long cold Winter followed by a miserable Spring. It is incredible how rapidly Nature responds to…

15 Apr 18 Walrus

The Cliché Photo that keeps on giving

The easiest way to understand how honeybees work is to think of the colony as the body of an individual, and therefore the bees themselves are more like cells which make up that body. It is the survival and prosperity…