Blogging off until 2005, but spring starts today

I'm off for a short Christmas break, so Propolis won't be updated again until about 2 January 2005. So do have a good holiday -- if you are having one -- and all the very best for the New Year.

Meanwhile if you are a beekeeper you might like to ponder this list of characteristics confirming that you really are a beekeeper.

I know I'm a beekeeper because I think that winter starts at the beginning of August when the last honey flow has ended, and that spring starts today because the queen is probably just about to start laying in eanest to produce next year's workers.