So it comes to pass that whilst working in the new part of the garden earlier today, I became aware of a humming sound, not Tinnitus, just Honeybees swarming from the overgrown hives in the property next door.
At this time I went inside to close the windows such that should the Queen decide on a cosy place to bide awhile, it wasn't going to be my sitting room.
Not too well up on bees and apiary in general I Googled and Wikkied on the subject and found that at this point in their life cycle they were at their least harmfull. Looking out from the safety of my sitting room I noticed they had formed a 'Nuc' in the pine tree opposite.
It seems they would stay there for a time, send out scout bees to find a permanent home and then move on. We must have smart bees here in Hampshire as in the time it took me to make a cuppa and sandwich thay had buggered off.
Dennypoos...............keeping in touch with nature, albeit from indoors.