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  • He may not succeed but he surely is acting in a moral way by trying to do so? if you cannot see the sense in that then its time for us all to hand back our cards and take up bee-keeping … …

    Life, Death and Taxes. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • One figure wears a bee-keeping hood over a gas mask and a dinner jacket; the other dons a welder's helmet and a mink stole.

    Cincinnati Modern 2011

  • There'll also be stalls, workshops, talks on biodiversity and bee-keeping, and a roving reporter from Gardeners' Question Time, so you can discover more quirkily-named species.

    This week's new events 2011

  • The liberalization the government has been able to accomplish has little or no domestic opposition, such as foreign investment in bee-keeping.

    New Delhi's Reformettes 2012

  • One figure wears a bee-keeping hood over a gas mask and a dinner jacket; the other dons a welder's helmet and a mink stole.

    The Wilds of Cincinnati Candace Jackson 2011

  • The iconography is, mostly, quite traditional, but often approached from unusual and affective angles: his stunning redheaded St. Gobnait, is quite conventionally liturgical, but draws on the work of Donatello and even a Léon Bakst costume design; cleverly, the saint's bee-keeping associations translate into the honeycomb-shaped leading worked into the design of her tunic.

    Harry Clarke, Ireland's Master of Stained Glass 2009

  • The bee-keeping industry in the UK is rightly alarmed at the incidence of what appear to be examples of Colony Collapse Disorder (when whole colonies of bees suddenly expire from as yet undiagnosed causes) which has already caused alarm in the USA and has asked for a thoroughly modest £8 million pounds to fund research.

    Archive 2008-03-09 2008

  • The bee-keeping industry in the UK is rightly alarmed at the incidence of what appear to be examples of Colony Collapse Disorder (when whole colonies of bees suddenly expire from as yet undiagnosed causes) which has already caused alarm in the USA and has asked for a thoroughly modest £8 million pounds to fund research.

    Ministerial Incompetence: Time For It To Be A Crime? 2008

  • He wanted to go off to the country and get into bee-keeping with Sherlock Holmes, maybe finish up his Ph.

    Archive 2010-07-01 Steve Perry 2010

  • Young environmentalists can try storytelling, wigwam-building and puppetry while grown-up greenies learn nappy-making, bee-keeping and rain-harvesting.

    This week's new events Colette Bernhardt 2010

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