Jonathan: Our bees have kept themselves tucked up nice and warm and dry in their hives over the past days of wind and rain: today it has turned sunny and they are out in force, coming back with their pollen baskets (the sticky hairs on their back legs) covered with huge balls of bright orange-yellow pollen (possibly from daffodils, but there’s also an awful lot of yellow celandine in our lawn!), which of course goes to make little baby bees. They wouldn’t be doing this if there weren’t in each colony a fertile queen laying eggs, so looks like we’ve come through the winter just fine.