New Bee Books

Karl Showler, who was at the Turning on of the Christmas Lights last week dressed as Father Christmas, has just launched two new books.
He's long been known as an expert on bees - he used to have Hay's smallest bookshop, selling nothing but books about bees, and he also sold his own honey, and made straw bee skeps. He's done original research on the flight paths of honey bees - I remember attending a talk he did for the Wildlife Trust, where he talked about wandering the hills with a long flexible pole to follow them. I think the pole had some sort of bee friendly chemical on it to attract them.
Now he's written a biography of James Atlay, a former Bishop of Hereford, and Aspects of Beekeeping, which is a look at important people in the history of beekeeping.
I hope I have as much energy as him at eighty!