Only an insect oligarch's palace is good enough for a Hampstead hive
Well Branch Hill is buzzing with excitement. Allotment officer Hilary contacted us a couple months ago to say that someone had asked to keep a beehive on site. Now must admit to a secret pang of envy as we had yearned to keep bees on Ruth's plot but there was dark talk of anaphylactic shock, so we decided we did not want to kill any neighbours... at least not in our first year.
As you will see from the picture above the hive has arrived. And not some modest Winny-the-Pooh style hive. This is a hive-hotel, a sort of Saudi prince's palace of a bee house, perhaps more suited to the billionaires on Bishops Avenue than an allotment on Branch HiIl. But I have to admit it is beautiful. Fit, as they say, for a queen.
