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Posted by quietlife (U8524020) on Thursday, 31st May 2007
Has there ever been a beekeeper and apiary related stories in rural Ambridge. If not, why not?
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Yes Jill kept bees when she and Phil were at Brookfield. When they moved to Glebe Cottage she agreed with Ruth that she would go on looking after them and AFAIK that is still the situation. I can't recall any mention of them being got rid of although they haven't been mentioned for a long time.
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Jill mentioned fairly recently some probleem with the bees and varroa
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I knew as I posted that I was giving a hostage to fortune there. What I should have said is, 'I can't remember them being mentioned for a long time.
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Pity - it could be a useful plot device if various members of the family went off to tell the bees their news, as I believe used to be the custom.
(... as well as one which might render many of the inhabitants of ML entertainingly apoplectic...)
VH
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Yes, Jill still looks after the bees in Brookfield's orchard.
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Orchard Keri?
Little mention of it.
What fruit?
The only orchard I can think of is that providing apples for Grundy cider.
Or do the Herefords graze in an apple orchard (as indeed they sometimes do in Herefordshire)?
bob
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It's an apple orchard and has been mentioned fairly regularly over the years. I don't think they are cider apples because George Barford used to get apples there for his annual apple tasting. They may possibly be Borsetshire Beauties. Freda (Phil's middle white) used to be kept there. I don't think there has been any mention of the Herefords grazing there.
The orchard the Grundys get their apples from is the one at Grange Farm. The first year Oliver was there they had to scrump them but now he graciously lets them pick them legally, like the gent he is.
Please note my memory may be at fault in some or all of the assertions made above.
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And of course it is the location of the notorious tree house (E&OE).
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Phil used to keep his pigs in the orchard, I think.
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Just so, R and R.
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Pity - it could be a useful plot device if various members of the family went off to tell the bees their news, as I believe used to be the custom. I beieve it still is, unless someone knows it has changed.
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