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PROGRAMME FOR 2008


Friday 5th September

16.00  Ken Key: Optional guided tour of Abergavenny
18.45  Pre-dinner drinks and beekeeping inventions quiz
19.30  Dinner
20.45  Chris Barber MBE: Roaming with a camera in the Brecon Beacons’ 
           National Park

Saturday 6th September

08.30  Registration and staging of honey show exhibits
09.30  Welcome
09.45  Dr Amanda Tonks: Honey and wound healing
10.45  Coffee
11.30  Professor Dewey Caron: Colony Collapse Disorder
12.45  Lunch
14.00  Trish Hayward: Medieval honey cookery for beginners
                OR
           Gill Sentinella: Dancing with bees (A change from the programme as originally published)
                OR
           Guided tour of St Mary’s Priory Church and tapestry
16.00  Tea
16.45  Alison Willott: BC bees (bees in early literature)
18.00  Judge’s feedback and presentation of cup
18.15  Second opportunity to try the beekeeping inventions quiz
18.45  Pre-dinner drinks
19.30  Dinner
20.45  The Uncalled Four – a little entertainment

Sunday 7th September

08.45  Non-denominational service
09.15  Registration for day visitors
09.30  John Verran: Small hive beetle and other exotic pests
10.30  Answers to the beekeeping inventions quiz
10.45  Coffee
11.30  Professor Dewey Caron: Living with Africanised bees
12.45  Lunch
14.00  Professor Paul Morgan: bee sting immunology
15.15  Ask the panel
15.55  Close
16.00  Tea


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