Links to Bee web pages
Video is brilliant for observing bee-haviour, at last beekeeperThese links will mainly be videos but first one that appealed to me: Make your own 16th century beesuit (see Breughel drawing above). While on Martin's site (beesuit) go to Beekeeing and Skeps and scroll down, and there you'llfind pictures of Martin working in the suit.
This is the clip that decided me to keep this collection: a new queen "piping." It's a legend, mentioned in bee books but to hear it and see it on video is amazing. You'd have to be a pretty experienced beekeeper to be sure of hearing this at your own hives Here is a fab discussion of a hive and the queen, in French (great pictures) by a guy who is NOT afraid of being stung. It's #4 of several bee videos: scroll right down the page.
The other videos there are good too. There seems to be some sort of points contest on the go, but I couldnt work out how to give Mr French Beekeeper my vote!
A short clip of the now well known bee dance to show directions beyond the hive.. and a slightly longer video of the dance.
Here is Anna Dickie's short video clip of me talking about the bees at Callander Poetry Weekend. I think I look very jerky but a lot of people said they liked the talk.
A video of making honey an easy way without spinners, but you lose the comb
Three BBC bee videos:
How to move a nest: a brilliant video of rescuing a colony in a house roof
Keeping bees on a high flat roof
Bee management on the Wirral
Attenburgh goes up a tree to see large honey bees
Poetry and philosophy books for sale at Kings Bookshop Callander. See more books for sale on other pages on this site. Please bear with us as we begin to list books online. Tel UK 01877 339449 email sally.king4@btinternet.com
Ted Hughes, Wodwo. Faber. 1st edition 1967. Tatty dust wrapper with half of dust wrapper spine missing. £25.
- Ted Hughes, Wodwo. Faber 2nd impression 1967. £40. A better copy with pristine dust wrapper and is ex library (small stamp on back title page) though unused. Tempting to change the dust wrappers but we don't. Anyway the reprint's dust wrapper has decimal pricing therefore sold after 1970, and a slightly different list of Faber poets on the back.
Buy them both, two Wodwos for £60.YEATS : W B Yeats, by Joseph Hune, Macmillan, 1940. Beautiful half morocco binding, ridiculously cheap at £65.
- another copy, same exactly, sound but slightly grubby original cloth binding £10.
The Variorum edition of the poems of W B Yeats (ed Allt and Alspach) Macmillan 6th printing 1973 (1940) Bookplate Ex Libris Maurice Lindsay £35
Philosophy
Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects in two vols by David Hume esq. a new edition 1817
2 beautiful vols boung in full brown morocco, fantastic. £300
Spinza: Ethic: from the Latin of Benedict de Spinoza tr W Hale White tr rev by Amelia Hutchinson Stirling. 2nd ed revised and corrected with new preface T Fisher Unwin, 1894 half morocco £50
Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Vol 1 A Genealogy of Morals, Poems tr Haussmann and Gray, T Fisher Unwin 1899 half morocco £50
Nietsche vol 3 the case of Wagner, Nietzsche contra Wagner, the twilight of the Gods, the Antichrist tr Common, T Fisher Unwin 1899 half morocco as above £50
Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean, 2 vols, edition limited to 1000, of which 75o for sale in England, boards with dust wrappers, uncut. The Medici Society Riccardi Press Books Octavo series. very nice if you like this sort of thing and very cheap at £60 for 2 vols.
Locke. An Essay on Human Understanding by John Locke, gent. 24th ed. with the author's last additions and corrections complete with notes in 1 vol. William Baines & Son, 1823. half blue morocco for a change. £85
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