Within weeks of switching to Isa grates the scientists stressed of the ping is not safe just less harmful than tobacco sports news Scotland are in action this afternoon in the 1st of their final 2 remaining euro 2020 qualifiers they've travelled to Cyprus and head to head coach Steve Clarke says it's an opportunity to build momentum ahead of March is crucial playoffs and rugby in Glasgow Warriors face seal sharks in the Champions Cup head coach Dave Rennie says he'll decide on his future in the next few weeks I know the outdoor activities forecast for today Scotland will be between low pressure to the southeast and higher pressure to the west giving and generally know the flow with rain at times for eastern areas starting with the details for hill walkers and climbers southern and eastern Scotland will be largely cloudy with patchy rain and drizzle at times most prevalent for the Southern uplands but with showers at times 2 for the Cairngorms following a snow above about 700 metres western ranges will be largely dry with some bright spells the best of these for the Northern Highlands cloud will tend to thicken through the day temperatures at Monroe level will peak at around 0 to $2.00 Celsius for the glens temperatures will reach around $4.00 to $6.00 Celsius the freezing level will be around 800 to 900 meters for the Cairngorms and Northern Highlands mostly a 1000 meters elsewhere winds at Mineral level will be novelty for most at 5 to 10 miles an hour although southerly at 10 to 15 miles an hour for the Northern Highlands and Western Isles Meanwhile the southern uplands will see northerly winds at 15 to 20 miles an hour cloud bases will be extensive at 500 to 600 meters in the East but more broken and mostly at $700.00 to a 1000 meters in the West visibility will be moderate to poor in the east with the low cloud and rain but generally good in the west outside of any lower cloud patches now the forecast for intra waters around Scotland mall of Galloway to Mull of Kintyre including the 4th of Clyde in North Channel when the North to northeasterly for $3.00 to $4.00 seas smooth or slight mall of can tired to argue Mark and point winds variable one to 2 becoming north westerly later sees a slight or moderate argument can point to keep rough including the mention winds variable of mainly south 2 to 3 seas slight to moderate keep Rasta Raftery head including Orkney when southeasterly one to 3 moderate occasionally slight in muddy Firth. And that's b.b.c. Radio Scotland. You're listening to on b.b.c. Radio Scotland. Coming up I meet what we are claiming is the most spoiled collection of bees in Scotland you know differently we're also looking at a beautiful handmade natural corridor for small creatures and whose routine is human disturbing here well dealing with wildlife it's never predictable of the big huge for the microphone that looks like a gun so you might not be that keen but you know you go for it. Well he's thought about you like the. Lovely you come down in a minute but give him some pain medicine. If you know the meeting that lady's granny later in the program find out more shortly if you get any idea with that please get in touch you can if a part of the words of p.b.c. Doc. Thinks it is 02.5 treat b.b.c. It daughter get in touch my Facebook takes you to take your calls all right 59295. For a long long time the line was cultivated by horses and there's there is a reason why modern vehicles the power is actually translated as horse power we were hugely dependent on horses much much later than people realise we could also actually go. To sleep and be trained to attack Yeah it's a horse is a skill work Few isn't as easy as it is I find. Walk on but you know who I want to where you go go on. Come on Tom Get up go on I'm Jim Elliot and I'm a 100 minute had a house and a National Trust properties and scores jump in British champion world champion Yeah that's right and here we are at the maiden with an absolutely monkey feel. Yeah there's been a lot of rain in the last 2 or 3 nights and it has made it really wet on the top so the horses who got here the Thomas on the right he's the show you across and parts on the left he's an Irish called and the one side is different from the others are . Not really it nice if that if they're the same size but at least the same color so why did you want to get involved in using a horse the player Well ours had a porny when I was young from about 45 It all got a shirt and pony and then we went to the plough in competition in Lancashire in 1971 I think and Bob Hola called him he was with horses it was the 50th anniversary and he brought horses back for that year the father used to play with the tractor and I just sort of a say came and went off with Bob and I was with him all day in the say afterwards a toughie sandwiches and whatever and the rest history I just said on the way home that I wanted to play with horses and dad said we had a horse plough line behind a hedge somewhere and we pulled it out and cleaned it up and we bought it a pair of horses for the 1st couple of years and then gradually bought them in and started from there. Seriously bogey one in the way following one in the drawing Yeah. Right who just let it in at the end here and keep the wheel up against the edge and that keeps you width and the wheels keep the depth you just have to stay at it walk on Tom part get up to one you want to where you go you want. Come on Tom get up to one there's quite an inkling to go Yeah yeah it is a bit of a hill but we have plowed worse but it's easier when it's on the. Walk on. So you go according to what voice commands it if it's mostly. With the brain if you need the reins to supplement if you don't stop with her Come on come on walk on. Go on walk on. The components walk on to set them off to the right come here to the left to stop. To the right here come on walk on. The same whatever you go nor Scotland they used to show today and wish and. Yorkshire there's all different commands for different parts of the country which make it difficult because presumably play when used to go to different parts of the country just getting horses used to it it would take too long you know you've competed in Denmark Yeah you have to learn Danish No it would have been 100 they didn't work well to be quite honest because you know they didn't understand me. When you showed. It over there so. When you come to storm you want to stop you thought oh yeah Show me when the didn't stop. And then you had to go but then you'd go until you wanted to stop it was no offer help but still managed to win it is a dying or yes I think so unfortunately I wouldn't like to make it but we've got to be truthful and I think it is because that isn't the youngsters coming on now unfortunately and it's an expensive hobby to get into and there's no prize money of a little prize money so you have to be fairly well off to be able to keep horses and. Yeah there is work for them and a lot more more in the forestry industry than there is maybe on a quarter but who knows petrol and diesel might have to go back to them it. Happens and it would at the end of the drill Yeah turn right come on come on walk on get up go on not get on Tom But boy slowly. Slowly. Go on you know. Oh. Come on. Ok We're going to give me to no no just keep the whale up against the edge and keep it straight it's a heavy thing isn't it come on steppin Ok so what's. It going Tom where you go that's it just lift it up and it'll going away go. Up against the edge Yeah well Pat. Only be about quote and I know go on but I want to get up just get on. To the pick me and join us I think so I don't think you'd be able to cut him on it if he didn't but you know I think to do enjoy it really want to get up you do it I do yeah if it's good conditions and a good day there's nothing better. Skate quick story it's a serious problem yeah it has been plowed for a while but yeah I would have to pick some of the stones but they're not really big room but installing some There's a dream being put in here. It's gone so in a funny out going away go to get back in used to come and gone but that you know that situation where. It's quite satisfying to like to see the forest. And we're looking at it from a different angle from the truck to you know. Looking forward to talk of being able to plunder this is really buggy Well truck just 4 wheel drives would yes but. No I don't think so. Well. Ok simple really. Provide a good. When I win a match at many places that know we thank you very much Ok. You in there flowing with Jim Elliot champion horse it sounded really which was absolutely poking out of his East I've never seen such a lead like that but Jim is the Scottish British and world champion storm he was a good man to teaches you imagine taking a 10 acre field and trying to plough it with a horse and a single photo. Well the point that Jim was making is you know the definition of an acre is how much a plane can play in a day if you did things in your field if you've got a big long narrow field that's a dog or if you've got a really if it's the other way running they're constantly coming and it's a heavy weight thing to move around that it could be forever after the definition of an acre was 61 years were 69 yards. No no no I don't think that's how much I was speaking rubbish or if you are speaking rubbish with change there if you want to see German action if you go to Facebook page you want to see me in action when they go to the b.b.c. I Player you see a bit of that online board a Tim's been touched him Holmes re your britches thing. What you didn't refer to as a bit the lack of beaches it may have been why on home much there's a qualified expedient speech or a plumber or electrician or gas for touch probably arrange of 25000 up 240008 pain with a war for the council or a large private company a perhaps a breach of salaries expectations or stopping interest in the one much of which you can expect to end well. It will be about this way answer the question and if I'm wrong here we would like to hear from you. $90.00 to $95.00 of the below you cannot eat 10 pounds an hour 21 Phocians. Possibly more fortunate for skilled workers not a lot of you know compared to a plumber than possibly you know if you know different we'd love to put the break in you can take to so he's you know chewing fully what email out of doors at b.b.c. Key element of the program. Talking to Rosemary champion. And just. There is as you hear an awful lot going on there. So more hens in amongst the lovely or churned we planted 57 years ago and the apple trees 5 years ago we've lost the fewer They intervene and p. To do iti left. To the new start to come in a few who production and to be mean we make up a truce to sale pasteurized and we just sell that locally so here we go these are this year's hatch that's the cocoa he's called Rocky is very small thing is they. Come in who is Pekin Bantam people will have gathered tip of sheep you've got cattle one in amongst the hens No There's apples you have an awful lot going on here we do and I guess we're not untypical of a small holders many of them are due in lots of things on a small scale it's probably what farm and was like a 100 years ago old mean driver has been to produce food for sales that's where we started from and that still and appends what we do I mean we eat the athlete we drink the apple juice you know we the eggs in the beef and the lamb but we also want to be producing food for people if we can buy stuff locally that can support local businesses a case of food yards or the food miles and that's important to us and it's obviously important to customers. And we are by no means alone if people want local food look to your local small community and local small holders I hope. To the challenge and produce food to sale one of the reasons that myself and some other people would involved in and start a small hole in Scotland was to give small Hooters a voice smallholding as they can a Cinderella sake to their farm and were not well recognized by the government we don't get much support if we could get organized to get a bit more support not just financial support but that's important to access to information to treat one for people who are farming on a small scale who don't have access to big machinery and don't want access to big machinery then recruit transform the smallholding sector and Scotland to be an absolute Posa food production I mean I think there is a lot of interest in local organic here not a just that organic I would argue that we found broadly organic principles it doesn't seem to be an issue for customers for customers that interest than has been able to see the hens to be able to bring their grandchildren didn't see the hens in the pigs when they're here we keep the pics of the year for the winners we keep one for sales one for a friend and we have a community pack which is she had to buy a bit 6 couples and chemistry and we love that we don't do it for profit we do it because it helps people get in touch with the we have the food comes from and I think a lot of small holders can and do the same sort of thing and one of the things I think we're not terribly good at and small holding is could fit vege for sale and I think that's a big opportunity squashed often Federation Scotia cultural colleges a role in all of. Or polytunnels on horticulture and the cove counties I would like to see that. Doing here because there's a market for that for fish vegetables grown locally and if we could get some cooperation go and then small holders could be sent to feed a lot more into the low carbon part of them than the Navy because there's a lot of discussion at the moment about mental health in farming and you know people that live quite solitary lives and things and it's tough I mean we're here today the reason being a stay in your district Green I'd love to be here but in a couple the same when it's dark when you get up dark when you're when you're doing your work it is difficult Yeah and I guess you know mental health is an issue in all aspects of life I think maybe small holders are cushioned from and in comparison to farmers because very often we do have all that and come streams we me have other walk that take us off the small who are in for part of the team you know very often farmers are 247 on a farm and what severe financial problems and that must really Grange again but on the other hand and small who you know you know what can know and very often what happened to lose your hands on with your life story you knew them and I mean that I've proven health benefits of getting your hands dirty and you know spending time with animals it's not healthy we of of what I've been in contact with each other I suppose and if you don't mind me asking when you are unable Lenny longer to physically I am with you know the demands here what will happen to your small building where well that's a difficult one and we have nobody in the family who's interested in taking on however we do want to do is to look at some options we it continues as a small hole and it would be nice to be able to protect us so that people will continue. Access to local food from this land and not just be. It if there was hasty in my case on a small holder Rosemary champion there and if you want a finer moment smallholding Scotland there is a link to their website from ours so if you got a small holding it was our small farm technically no technically it's a small holding we've only got slightly less than one acres Yeah but you know working well we produce so it's not strictly speaking a crop we don't get any subsidy or a whole other big story no pigs no hands well just horses you know tempted not in the slightest not in the slightest. Seriously it's enough I can do to keep it standing with the horses horses and enormously destructive teachers Yes we could get rid of what I complain about your little horses of community takes your teeth I think that community takes a creative idea yeah I remember at a bit of a pig with. A bit of a pick we were wholly booth the rate that one would use to keep pigs and had an interesting one which appeared on Christmas all right you know it was a good question of the very fatty solely on. Depends what you feed them on yes I suppose if I was thinking of the number of stored a whole pile of apples yes. But the so many in the growing obviously want to leave some for the birds but you could have pigs on. Pigs pigs examples where the be enough fixity the apple sauce. Sauce think. You would want the pigs to know would you not even know of as it was the truth a Ira fer I was asking if anybody knew what would you give it a bit of would quote me. Said George Anderson going touch and George Anderson a little is that it was George Jones and the beach ball garden I said it was George Anderson from the Scottish Woodland Trust and I was wrong George says to me George Anderson is I fear your correspondence morning as a beach girl garden not the beach or not the vegetable merchant and not the Woodland Trust Just just on the off chance that folk haven't caught up with us you might like to know that next season beautiful girls gone right back up to 26 episodes yet. There was such a huge response all credit to the b.b.c. Management they listened and they put it back up to 26 again so yeah really good to see what people can achieve you know you can cause. Life 1985 that. We were down in the freezing gallery earlier this week that's a part of the country where possibly because it's just the soul we're far from when you're entering when you see things that normally you would possibly see in England Shire like for example Glen Walker there's a commercial Heschel here and I met up with I'm not interfacing gallery but in the borders near soundcard. What I'm doing here with traditional Hazel and Mark is we're taking this 14 year old page this one has to Maidenhead just never been laid before. And the technical process thing. I can see here is an acute cut into the stem and split it into the point where you can form a hinge and then bend over so that hinge comprises basically the bark the cambium in a bit sop with a not close to transport system up and down the plant to remain functional. In the sapwood it gives a bit of support and not sufficient for a lot stem that's been laid when I call up the pleating is a process of cutting through and it becomes a police when it's a lead So what will No happen is that from the stool at the bottom of the point here is the cambium. It will. Heal Ok the can be as effective as of the in the skin of the box yeah it's several cell layers . Transport of nutrients through the plant so bored lots will it will start to form buds all the way around here and not stool will send 5 or 6 new shoots and they will grow a vast to clean up through these places which have been laid and I $35.00 degrees and the new shoots will come up through the woods and it will net together into an impenetrable barrier which becomes a living fence you've got the living stuff at the bottom but you've also got these it's not like Hazel warms to me or something of the collection of Hazel and birch and these are binders so when we've laid over the police shows I then draw if stakes don't through the lid hedge approximately 18 inches a man's arm roughly. And then across the top of lot I take the. Hazel and birch binders and I weave in a binding then drive the stakes and hard and the whole thing becomes solid and and strong he showed me how you make a bend over those preachers but he stuck to me like lunatics So there was a point here we can do this one as quickly so oversee a god but I choose to see it go since we chainsaw behind Bill who can this is Norfolk pass and Bill who are all can a regional in style as you also have regional styles or Hage So with this little one going to just so I'm sure it's no problem. Cluelessly just put away less access stuff here. Hi I'm just cutting off the saved branches. So a lot of the only into place properly because of too much brush and there so this little thin stain which is about and then long. And going to blow just about here fairly subtle blue and I'm holding the top of it because I gives me some pressure on the plant a sensitivity when I hit it I can feel when the car runs so if you just watch it no should just go in one cut. And there it is and that's all that's required for a little fun one. I'll just leave into the heads like that with a bit of manipulation what does this do for Wildlife Fund such that it's fantastic So if you look at most of the hedges you see around here in the borders and Scottish loons I mean they're all planted as a living fences but post-war with mechanization coming in was a labor and learned a lot of traditional practices which were done in soil and Scotland always had his own he would been laid up and so in the fifty's the latest the old become if you look at the you'll see that all quite stands at the bottom there's no growth in the Boss only because of contemporary flailing like you can see the Union message here you know basically just put a tractor along with a flail just like shops at the pieces shops to top up and you can see it becomes a knitted mass at the top and in the bottom there is no actual hedge cover so for wildlife for you this doesn't have much value as as you snow nor do the relict hedges that you see around a boat you get the old bird if you go Frenchness along here not very much else there's no cover in the bottom for the small mammals or unfair beings or reptiles So when you leave that over then thickens up the whole hedge and this becomes a fine Tosh thick thick corridor for wildlife to transit and it takes like a tunnel it's a cover tunnel it gives all on the most security ellos then to travel from harvest to habitat so it becomes a wildlife corridor and that's even more important and it is like what I am into in the mess and and rocks which are where you've got almost universal orrible farming and there's nothing in the fields there's nothing for wildlife so very much or you go is the margins and specifically the hedges so by doing this you increase its ecological value. Many fools can see that this is quite a skilled job and he's doing the skilled job they have of how many hedge lives Allah it's called and any idea there's very few there are people who will you will see your own cutting hedges but I'm unaware of anyone who's doing it on the commercial scale I do it for instance I'm completely booked a season which runs from 1st of September to 31st of the month of March next year if you go why that why those days essentially what you want is a dormant hedge with new wildlife and it's for the birds of stop nesting that go on you want ideally the leaf off the tree because of the huge amount of weight to not leaf cover and also you can see more clearly what you're doing when the leaf covers off and traditionally as well this was the off season and farming so you would do you had to do your day can you do your ditching all those tasks that had to wade through there until the end of the year how did you get into it when I can imagine you're looking up to some guidance teacher 3040 years ago and saying what I really want to do this and I'm an archaeologist by profession and. You know that's an obvious leap and obviously so I 1st saw it I moved down south Well 40 years ago and I forced soil in Gloucestershire in Oxfordshire when I was working professionally in the field. You know anything about it coming from school and as you don't see a whole luckily what with a child who didn't know and he introduced me to the craft and then I did a little course with bt c.v. As it was by then British Trust for Conservation Volunteers I want pretty much lay dormant with me until I moved back up to Scotland in 2003. And discovered that we hold the Scottish national championships actually here in the border and from. So I got involved in not just as a as a novice cut in the head once a year because I have another profession as an office blacksmith. Right so I didn't really have time for Headley so it's only really in the last say 10 years the. I've given more attention to. An important aspect of bringing value to the countryside and I actually know divest if I had my business going to split it between the blacksmithing through the summer and this through the winter I have to say I'm lost in admiration for this it just makes a very pleasing cheap to the high i watch but this can you actually do in a day cause it must be quite time consuming this style is quite time consuming this is what we call the standard page on the middle and hedge on it's a very strong hedge because it's got to resist bullocks and they and the grazing side over layouts are lots why it is heavily built that's why there are so many stakes and that's why it's got this very heavy bind on here so to lay our heads like this you a skilled mind doing well can do a chin a day which is about 22 yards to the. Lead stake than by a chain a chain it's a great thing of a hedge lane is akin to it walks on those old human measurements so I mentioned before so the distance than just stakes is a is a man's arm. From elbow to 1st. The height above the binder as a 1st. Although often just walks on the principle you must be really satisfying to do it as once you've seen this I mean I've got about a quarter of a kilometer to do both sides of the road here so when you see this whole thing laid from what is no is very aesthetically pleasing and very satisfying and you're doing a great thing it's a best thing you can do for a living. Green walk of the animal with a bow not I've got. A road to save me which for their 2 years who was just open field. Then you put a hedge in is beach or full of all kinds of other things but it's cool remarkably quickly and it's likely a leanin death and yes a real tunnel that this take me your grades and writings and berries birds and squirrels. But what he was talking about is you know what pretense that wages in Scotland they get flailed So you know you go along and they get chopped off and you get growth up and then it gets chopped off again to be a full fee whatever it is whereas if you if you bend over labor effect you're creating is is a living and stuff can move up and down and it's a really safe route for wildlife a lot more it's a lot of hard work but I think that if they do the end effect is actually very pleasing to the eyes of. Ses Good morning tried to do v.d. Listen it just wasn't right much better listening to the the Borg. Fire with a cup of tea while you write their own body someone says interesting question for you Mark as an apprentice motor mechanic in the 1960 s. I and 2 pounds 7 shillings and sixpence a week what was Mark's we as an apprentice time. Scuffing I was making about 100 pounds a week now under Bush was a good job. In the stuff you actually got to get the scripts I think I was 17 and we. Still. You're listening to the doors here to be serious Scotland Stephen he's you and Michael riff of the still trying to work out what happened to the bank if you miss any of this there are a few is a listening again whenever you like looking at the program on b.b.c. Site or you can download the free Scotland Atlas podcast is brilliant it is a claimed around the world folk listen all over the shop we do like heating where you listen to the forecast email us your stories out of doors. Which is what Marty Finnan did she says I'm from Glasgow but kind of living in Abu Dhabi with my husband where we both work at the moment I wanted to write to say thanks so much for the informative inspiring often funny sometimes thought provoking but all round wonderful podcast one of which is there new to. Listen usually while out on the water early mornings in a stand up paddle board off so good for the soul to be transported back to the whole doors that I love you have such topics I never know what's. Coming next week never disappoint she goes on I'm always telling people about the show the things I've learned from listening when we move home we're looking forward to catch up on checking out all these places you talk about thank you very much Martin so lovely image was that your paddle boarding which was listen we thought process into which we did once and feel do spectacularly in the bar but no you failed I absolutely nailed up business running backwards off the court the harbor was. Just like the pea for the last week in the program you might remember we put a call for Jill the owner of Jacko the jackdaw to get in touch as we were keen to meet. Obviously because Jill said she'd rescued jackal from certain death I hope you're following this because I'm not sure I'm she she claimed jackal talks all the time we tried to get a file set up last week but it was far too big so Joe got in touch and out of this week I went to Jill's farm near Carlos to hear the story of Jackal and perhaps even meet her. I was in the cattle shed one day destruct on nest fell off the rafters right in front of us too young and one of them was dead the other one was scrambling about and the cut was scrabbling about as well so as you do you pick it up and brought it up put it in a box and then more than the gate you this big red mouth of course it just gobbled everything and gave it in the box just glue The only downside is the fall was written it's a she she must of trick to be. Believably took her to the vet Bush and we think she may be fractured her bottom jaw when she fell but it wasn't very apparent at the beginning it wasn't parent or tall but as she's grown she's got the slightly to stood which doesn't affect anything except that possibly that's why she comes back and has her supplementary food for me I don't know what's the Do You should know she'll be what 5 months or something 4 months June once she could fly a letter I wrote to her on holiday I went up north and the suited to feed her every few hours so she had to come to and she actually learnt to fly on the Scottish island where I was staying did you not think you going to lose it at that point you know. You couldn't fly when we were there but she was taking their 1st steps anyway we came back. A letter out and she just flies around the farm basically if she sees me she comes flying down into a shoulder and she's flying with her pals she can show she comes veering out the sky and does a loop the loop in lands in my head or wherever you were talking to her I thought yeah but she talks to me I mean I talked everything she talks to me but when I go through recalling a recall because you actually go or looked up. I took the liberty of closing or in a toll because she she's free she comes back when she wants she goes away when she wants she mostly comes back at night the afternoon. Singles into the very her career to her and she do so there but sometimes she stays out all night and the next night and in September she disappeared for about 3 weeks and I thought she was gone she was dead so that was art anyway after 3 weeks she appeared back even fatter than she was when she left which proves she can feed herself and all her new feathers adult feathers were grown men but she had to sneeze a bad sneeze you know a virus or whatever so I did ticket to the bush again and they they are she jogged her with antibiotics which I think is a virus and it took about 3 weeks to go so our shots are in for about a week at that point after which time she was hoping to get out so she's been free ever since the term of the talking Where did that come I don't know really I think possibly when they're maturing I think or maybe it's the squint beak I don't know but she certainly talks just got my parents and often great parents the imitator and. Really quite funny so good side and have got it inside as well. To the moment so she's only very here. And open it sure. To the world but she's a wild bird she'll if I call or she comes and she comes around the garden with me in the morning on my shoulder and then I drive down to the yard to feed cattle and things and she hops about the roof tops and flies down and flies back up and shouts to everyone from the roof well dealing with wildlife and of a predictable of the a big huge for a microphone that looks like a cat. She might not be that keen but you know you go for it Ok Just look at the exciting thing in the do. Going to be a very helps them like you just sort of like oh well. She was like. Oh yeah. She's lovely you come down in a minute give us some of the 6 of them. Yeah she seems to come in and have a bar has more food and then flies off again disagree life she can live wild or can help herself Let's go to a sense of satisfaction of Yes I mean I would never keep a bird like that in a cage and you just see how wild wild birds are flying around because you don't come near me when somebody is here like you really have land at the other side of the main road l side of car lot and sometimes when I'm going on the cattle there she comes flying out of the sky and lands of a shoulder so she's obviously flying quite a distance to get over a line or so you can see what. She's arrived. And when you're sure that. You just give me a giving me a funny look but. She's always like a bit too cute and you can see a slight bend in the b. Yes just a wee bend doesn't seem to do any harm really given it's already all going. She will take off in a minute. She has. Incredible drops to Earth her I think she's going to. Look at the story. And just reject 2 of the saying her name is crystal clear but. You know it's funny we travel all over Scotland you know we travel miles and miles and miles to get a story but sometimes a stuff literally right on your doorstep just a few miles away from my I came across we come to call Alphonse v. . As you hear the owner of all things bees and Joe Look at him and it's very very passionate about honeybees. You know I keep my 5 hi honey bees do not he. They are active all year around the winter I've never seen hives like these before ordinarily the hives I've seen have been either hard plastic or would this looks like form no let me tell you something they're classic hives but they good be jackets. The jackets well imagine the delivery driver guy when he came in says b. Jack can't I said yes space is for the car I've our right sir so what's a little jacket for. When you really ought also to use b. Jacket so this helps be used not to use so much energy and food during the winter to keep 30 degrees into the hive Ok so the hive is very warm and this 1st year when I broke the entries only 22 holes so I basically because of the worst after this year tours Yes This year was just killed 4 of my young colonists it's never been such a bad beekeeping year and I never seen so many worst attack in my hives How did you get into beekeeping in the 1st place you always don't know is just always love bees and pollinators in b. I thought it would be nice if I kept my own and started as a hobby turn it into a small business but will only stay as a hobby How did you learn to keep bees because it's not straightforward it's not easy nor is not thanks to my beekeeping family which they taught me all about it and then you do the hard work by and you learn by yourself so I did had some tough experience and I learn as you can do mistakes without realizing but following my instinct always helped so I have a very good instinct about them are now tell you honestly just if I put my nose into the hive I know if my queen is fact there or not just from the smell Yeah I can smell I can smell the federal arms and the way you listen to a phone call that's how if I hear the buzzing I know what's going on into the hive so each colony individual it's different. And I can understand it's hives just from smell it and hearing when you go you know you have your 1st couple of hives and they're delivered to you presumably with bees and things with the honey in them too did you did you know when I bought the hives My teacher said you will bring it and we'll help extract the honey and I said well I'm not really a big keep it and I did the work for the honey so I don't think I deserve it so I said please bring the hives you know with stuff that you extract all the honey leaf plenty for the bees and teach me how to look after all winter and then I would be happy to get my own honey in the summer so I did this been a really hard work all winter and the preparations and doing some more work in looking after them so you mentioned that you were at the fair in my 1st county and if you would row called extract honey I mean you know easy to talk to extract just driver to yes so from the frame go straight into the jar without been altered in any way so every jar of my honey it's full of life full of enzymes for the conduit full of pollen respawn and I use just the basic filter going to try it you've got a job yeah got the job for you look fabulous you know it's the color of winter sunlight. That is lawful really nice it's got. It's almost like a sort of an aftertaste It's like Hollywood something on top of it do you know what I mean yeah it's very rich in flavor Yeah and this year it's been a by the year for them so they had more clover forage and then anything else clover honey it's supposed to be the best in the world most healthy one so this is what I have in the John that's why it's so cold and shiny. This is why I call them happy is there's more spoiled bees in the world I left you know the hives full of honey I mean I could hardly move the frames are and so they have plenty of food and then I top up with kicks I call during the winter just to make sure they stay strong and healthy till summer I know you pursue something called ethical beekeeping you know what's the sort of what makes ethical beekeeping different from any other going to be I call it creative free beekeeping So basically bees 1st and honey if it's anything left for me just a 2nd as I said it's just a hobby I love peace I love good kind of the really good kind this is the reason I started in beekeeping because I couldn't find the Honey I like it so the taste of my honey reflects the good of to be and I'll tell a story in my 1st year of beekeeping I had 13 swarms coming to my 2 hives 13 that's not possible and that's not normal and my teachers were shocked I mean you were collecting a swarm and then I see a big cloud of bees the top of my head coming again and I saw another one and you were all sweaty and finished just explain the significance of that because beekeepers love swarms because eventually what is the freebie is Billy's essential I mean essentially a community of bees gets too big kind of splits off part of them head off into the white blue yonder and if you're lucky to be keep you can catch it but to have 13 swarms heading in your direction yes just extraordinary I'll tell you what beasts follows bees so once these seen my bees happy and strong and healthy food they said they have a good spot so they will follow up and they'll chase to make a nest right here. A safer more obvious thing getting honey you also produce these wax wraps so come back into your house what do you actually do that they made you need to go 100 years back in time when our grannies used to use beeswax fabrics to wrap everything around that was before plastic came up so basically i melt the beeswax from my hives and I walk pure cotton fabric into it and using it up in all the vegetables and fruits or bread or pastries they last I think 5 times longer than normal so that helps preserve for the naturally because Bismarck's has to bacterial Propertius you've got the stuff you and it's it's flexible can you clean that you just what it with one water and soapy water I'm going on the principle which everybody will understand just trying get one drop of beeswax from your shirt Yes Ok I'll tell you know you have never be able to do that so you can take the beeswax out of my fabric I've done so by using one of the sheets essentially you don't have to use cling film you know what I used 10 for anything worth that's right all the chemicals are art so basically using the beeswax Rops you cut off all the chemicals from clean film you no longer need to use any paper keep one with you in your her rucksack in your backpack and any time you can finish your sandwich just drop in it any time your child is just helpful muffin you know Robin you know so you cut off a lot of packaging and you're like a door lookalike and a person who can't finish a sandwich. I really liked it up to that point and chock full of argument oh you've really got the most spoiled bees in the country I have to apologize to enjoy like her because she. Gave me some of the wraps for the team and I forgot to bring the men but I will bring them in next week very quickly Gordon and Richard we are says I was a patrol when working in the 7334 pounds a week go for the job in oil and 99 pounds a week that I never marched and to go over and say the thing to the message from the Levy and Abu Dhabi Bahrain and all of this thing to your program it takes me home every time that I love the variety and the presentation style keep it up get we've got a back porch laughing at her to some portions full of jackets and a lot those jackets don't get used this time of year obviously you need warm jackets there is an organization down in Glasgow that if you know if you've arrived in Scotland as a refugee you don't have the suitable gear for this team a year. This might actually be a useful connection Selena Hills founded an organization called Red you in Glasgow in 2050. There was a news clip that I saw that and that was definitely a point where I thought I'm not living in that world anymore that turns its back on people it was a father with a small child war behind him and a fence in front of him and tear gas and water cannons in between he was holding a child and my daughter at the time was about one and I remember thinking then this isn't Ok and naturally I'm choosing to sit back there must be something that can be done and if I'm not strong enough because I recognize I am nor showing enough to volunteer in a camp environment there must be something I can do here so refugee started in December 2015 very simply as a we for the existing community to ensure that the arriving communities the matter where they were from are highly got here or made to feel welcome and embraced by people in Glasgow in Scotland and how do you do so we started off the night with welcome packs a real simple top bag filled with kindness more than anything else. So some essential items like toiletries hats gloves and scarves suncream and for about a week of every year. We always include some Scottish items umbrellas come under Scottish items and then the normal incredibly unhealthy there are blue in tonics to all sorts of bags but most importantly in the bit that I think captured Glasgow in Scotland they contain a later in them a welcome message from someone who's a bit more familiar with the city and that not only means that anybody can contribute they're welcome you don't have to have money or stuff to do new and you can pass on your welcome message simply with your words every welcome pack is personal is different to the last they capture a little bit of someone's warmth and welcome to the. Betty So yeah we receive thousands of them we have thousands and thousands of those letters including pictures from children right through to surrogate all of Scotland I could not have predicted the the number of people that we have arriving in Glasgow and refugee packed around and be the response of the community in Glasgow I saw very deftly not if I would run this project from my spirit. Or telephone I think by January I was looking for space and I was looking for office space but even that has been donated and has been contributed through the kindness of people in the city that have spare space have the ability to collect donations for us and put them in the storage room so it's a real huge network of people and of community helping to achieve something really special so we never averaged $120.00 will compact every month. And that because of the volume of donations we've expanded into lots of different areas we regularly have people turning up to the pop events in surfin purse sometimes even in t. Shirts often an open to him like sandals and shoes just desperately looking for something warm this is not about meeting people style needs this is a boat providing essential warmth over the coming months you want another you're looking for so we desperately need $12.00 jackets at the moment we always need waterproof cloth and as an adult kids everything across all ages we usually get an awful lot of very young children's clothing but actually we need to for teenagers we need stuff for small main need stuff for ladies we need cosy jumpers we need hats scarves and born jackets and any sensible fit wear as well waterproof and comfortable flat fit where people are living on a 36 pounds a week budget boxes are no 550 a day for the day pass people are walking everywhere so we need to make sure that they've got progress that we're to do that in the winter months Selina Hales and if you'd like more details and refugee take a look at their website and obviously there are lots of Charlotte is it could do a winter just bear in mind Ok create table refugee Greece an email or a bit of it next week on the 24th of November a boys and 5 called common Greens are going to take off those farmers melons bakers Brewers scientists to try and generate a local green economy more jobs and improved access to quality food for research go to Facebook and look for common green Scotland enjoying p.c. I think they really are 6 bucks the bacon getting booked once again it's not getting done this week we want to come up with some of the recent Galloway were there very early in the morning when it was still dark in there was a fabulous Full Moon Yeah but it's a right it's a beautiful sight the sound of the geese and the Solway forth but what was equally breathtaking was that rain just before dawn and this November the moon has some special significance for the Scottish country safe. I'm looking up at one of the great sights at this time of year a food moon against a crystal clear autumn sky the hard frost has chased most of the remaining leaves from the beech trees and the massive buttery disc in the sky is shining brightly across the fields and the hedges the stubble when even the feet that's frozen crisp as Bracken and I can even walk but tonight is special very special in many cultures the winter solstice this year June the 22nd of next month is that same of pagan celebration but the food moon of November plays an important part not only in the lives of nomadic tribes but also for wildlife for this week's through Moon had olds big changes for wildlife and could see the return of an old and an ancient name for tonight's of ain't. The food moon is known and Native American folklore as a beaver moon the animals are preparing for winter dragging in a supply of twigs and branches to see them through the coming cold season and sadly for the beaver it was assigned to those who hunted the animals for the 4 to keep the cold but it was time to try as many as possible for their pelts for this moon is also known around the globe as a frost when after tonight the temperatures will plummet bringing ice and snow to the land and now with a successful reintroduction of the beaver to this land perhaps the fool moon will also be named the beaver moon. But perhaps not as the moon and we can tonight oh ready has a Scottish name this moon is known as a rude mean the woodcock originally a reader was adopted to live in clearings in woodland nocturnal birds that you're more likely to hear from to see. A warm chestnut board with short legs and a long build and an incredibly fast zig zagging flight between the trees and then suddenly dropping into the in the groove. Tayside along the muddy 4th the slow the in and small pockets of Argyle are home to resident populations of these delightful wee birds but come the food of November and the population rockets from the breeding grounds of Latvia Finland Russia Norway Sweden Poland almost a 1000000 would Cork are thought to head to our shores using the light of the food moon to make the long and hazardous journey to make it even harder certainly according to folklore the fool Marine also coincided with the arrival of thousands of good crests a tiny rain wakeboard the smallest in his country with a flash of yellow and sometimes known as the king of birds and they were thoughts of hitched a ride on the back of the wood Cork as they made their long moonlight flight nonsense of course but it gave the good grace that other name the woodcock pilot as it was thought they navigated the way for the larger bird. So this week's frosting a goose moon and some parts of the world I would call moon and possibly the beaver me take your pick but tonight all heralds the coming of the winter storms. So let me get this running gloom and doom. Going to pay for. Each would caucus go a little goldfinch jockey Yeah steering it across the North Sea navigating by the main county scientific fact is you know the 3rd thing which is right after that fight kind of is the good cooks the only board thought to actually pick up if it's right and it can pick up its young and fly off and can hold them between its knees and foil for them and the goldfinch jockey the same pound for pound that's a really strong bird you're absolutely goldfinches only the size of a 20 piece yes it's not the smallest part of Britain it's not it's not a bit but it's a paper which is a lovely image of just. For the gold crest on the back I'm not sure we we've got then I think they must be Woodcock because I've never heard them drumming but occasionally we get him flying up from the ditch at the bottom of our drive you know but 8. It's really difficult to tell but it tends to be when the lights really poor that you see them you know can a zigzag off the wall and Sally the woodcock does exactly that and it's almost you get a saying See she told the something there but I don't know what it was yeah it's going to go on before you see it a lot of my bird watching it it was a lovely image but on a beautiful me high ground there's a pigeon walking to meet us at the moment that's all sadly we've got time for this week join us in the car park next week actually not the carpet next week over I'm going to bring the winter will bring the winter to you just to cheer you up don't forget then of the Scot The No 2 spot comes from all of the team thanks for listening on digital radio f.m. 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State of Indiana has been suspended without pay after a drunken ended with a brawl and a shooting the state's Supreme Court said their behavior had grievously undermined public trust Roy Let's get some sports and Amy Beth is with us Good Morning Good Morning Scotland are an action this afternoon again Cyprus in the 1st of their 2 final remaining 2020 qualifiers they called Steve Clarke says it's an opportunity to build momentum and of March is crucial playoffs the state can't I qualify automatically Jack Ross says he's proud to have been confirmed as a Bernie and new head coach the former elements that met and boss has been available since he was sacked by Sunderland in October and the same with Easter all club on a 3 and a half year deal Glasgow Warriors face Sale Sharks and rugby's Champions Cup later last night in but got their Challenge Cup campaign under way with a bonus point when at a fringe site as in Scots Gavin Drysdale on Killie Hagel was crowned 100 meter world race running champions as running with the support of a 3 wheeled free him yesterday at the world. Championships in Dubai both with World Records times and Scotland's and his sharp says taking a break my $36.00 this is taken a break from Atlantic Saudi after surgery to remove precancerous cells and scuse me the 29 year old was alerted to the issue by a smear test and as Arjan other woman to get himself checked out your sports. Albert has your travel Good morning thank you Amy Stirlingshire and I can see delays on the 873 that settled between Blair Drummond and Port of main t.v. Traffic is actually queuing at some point and points a nearby further queues on the Be it all 31 I'm not sure what the problem is there perhaps road works I'll get that checked out so side of Glasgow pays a little does close city buy in for Piers just seaward street that our local. Diversions and on the ferries there's an amended timetable on Calyx open call tidy ceilings and that's for technical reasons and that's b.b.c. Radio Scotland travel Thanks through the weather much of Scotland will be closely with some patchy rain at times especially for the South and East Northern areas should be drier with some brighter spells the best of these for the Northern Isles maximum temperatures $4.00 to $8.00 Celsius right that's b.b.c. Scotland news and it's 5 minutes past $8.00 a tonne to that story but Prince Andrew and his links with the American financial and convicted sex offender Geoffrey Epstein Earlier I spoke to a reporter in Sophia I asked but I started by asking him who Geoffrey Epstein was so he was a New Yorker who started life as a math and physics teacher who went on to become a wealthy hedge fund manager and who ended his life notorious at the center of an alleged web of sexual exploitation now in 2008 he did a deal with prosecutors so he was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor and he was registered as a sex offender but he avoided a long prison term.