the last meeting, telephone tree

[Sabrina Aaronovitch]

Dear all, our last meeting in July at St Marys Secret Garden was wet but good.  Zoe showed us round the  gardens –mainly used for therapeutic purposes and beautifully designed in several small areas, including, of course, one for the beehives.  (a small area has been cut out of the tree canopy to give the bees a nice high flight path)

 

The hi-light of the morning for me was undoubtedly hearing the sound of a virgin queen ‘tooting’.   Zoe was lucky enough to hear this when she opened  a hive, and recorded it on her mobile phone.  None of us had heard this live, so she handed the phone  around.  It really does sound like a  creature tooting away on the tiniest of tiny trumpets.   All the more fascinating because it’s connected to a sinister event –the first queen to emerge from her cell toots; other queens still in their cells toot back, and then she kills them. Nature red in tooth and claw  ..followed by home-made scones, jam an other nice things.

 

We agreed it would be useful to have a telephone tree for quicker and easier connection –for example notification of swarms.  Here are details of some. (with location of hives, where known). Please print it off.  If you would like to be added, please post your name and tel.no. up on this mail site so people can add you on.

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Sabrina Aaronovitch     0208 802 6437    (Chingford)

Sally Haywill                        07950 467 902  (Stamford Hill)

Eleanor Paton                    07876 796 889 (Stoke Newington)

Richard Paton                    0207 249 0276   or 07780 554 291  (Stoke Newington)

Kevin Miller                        0776 869 7823 (De Beauvoir)

Julian Beere                       07885 654 223 (Chingford)

Lorraine Tillett                   0793 515 56511  or 0208 802 8802 (Stamford Hill)

Zoe Palmer                         07886 214 329  (Shoreditch)

Joss Bany                             07904 108 174 (Stoke Newington)

Sean Hearn                         07591 180 299 (Chingford)

Annetta Pedretti              0207 247 5334 or  0795 838 0039  ((Tottenham?)

Guy Dehn                            0777 948 6377  or 0208 442 4251 (Stoke Newington)

Ian Bailey                             0208 801 7097  (Shoreditch)

Tim Evans                            0208 986 3456 (Hackney Marshes)

Ariane Hadjilias                 0771 171 7634 (Chingford)

 

Some useful connections for immediate use:

 Zoe has a surfeit of small (half pound) jars which she is selling on.

She can also sell honey for you at Borough market, at a small commission.

And she can loan you an electric honey extractor  (£15 per day)

 

Talk to Julian about selling honey at the Hornbeam Centre’s Saturday stall (Walthamstow)

 

Talk to Eleanor if you would like to sell honey at King Henry’s Walk summer fete (near Newington Green)

 

Sabrina can offer a lift to the National Honey Show in Weybridge, Surrey (27^th-29^th October).  It would be good company if East London beekeepers went on the same day.

 

Diaries out now for our next gathering:  Tuesday, 4^th October, 7.30pm  at 37 Dunsmure Road N16 5PT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                               

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guy Dehn]

Sounds fabulous, if daunting for the later tooters. 

Perhaps we could see if we can get the toot onto our future website and offer it as a ringtone to download!

Happy holidays to you all & your bees.

Guy

Sent from my iPhone

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[e-mail shaywill]

Thank you Sabrian, and buongiorno from Italy! Sally x

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[Tim Evans]

At 17:33 29/07/2011, Sabrina Aaronovitch wrote:
>If you would like to be added, please post your name and tel.no. up
>on this mail site so people can add you on.

>Tim Evans 0208 986 3456 (Hackney Marshes)

Just a tweak - my mobile & my manor:

Tim Evans 020 8986 3456 / 07963 522471
(Clapton & Hackney Marshes)

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Tim