Buzz and Orville try the new approach patterns.

While out with the boss I had noticed a strange growth on the roof of a cottage. It has erupted from the inside and turned out to be expanding foam. Bees had swarmed in the brick layers between two cottages, then entered the roof space. 
A bee herder came and found the Queen, he thought the rest of the swarm would follow her into the temporary hive. Wrong! There are often young Queen pupae in their tiny snug cells. When the main Queen was removed and the main swarm followed a group of workers remained to tend the new Queen. This, I suppose, counts as a success, nobody wants to harm these incredible creatures and there are now two swarms. 
Here you can see the temporary hive in position and the bees have been checking it out ready for the transfer, by the beeherd, of the new Queen. I love watching the industry and organisation of these amazing little folks. 

In other news, the Garden Fairy and I missed the BBQ and the Red Arrows last night. This afternoon Marine1 and Marine2 plus an Osprey full of heavy hitters zoomed past. Joe did point at us and I’m sure he said, “Hey Jill, Nom nom, sleep, nom.” Plenty of people around Cornwall will have been delighted to see these aircraft, not something most of us expected to happen in the skies over Cornwall. 

Now, over to Laura Kuensberg who is waiting for a bus in Truro. “Oh, I think Boris has missed a trick here. Trudeau and Macron had helicopters, so did everybody else. Did Boris book one for me? No, that’s a racially prejudiced attack on broken jawed BBC reporters! Freedumb!”