Martin Buckle's personal web site.
Music, bees, baskets, skeps, talks and demonstrations.
Click the menu on the left. Some pages have others within them.
This is my own personal website . I enjoy sharing my interests with other people.
If you have comments and wish to contact me, the CONTACTS and GUEST BOOK pages are there just for you.
Contact me, Martin Buckle, using the contacts page , to comment on this site, to book me for a talk to your club, or to judge your honey show or ask for a skep.
I live in Milton Keynes, England.
My interests include :
playing the horn in local orchestras
beekeeping (I am a BBKA Senior Judge for honey shows and have over 30 years experience with bees),
basketmaking (I make willow baskets, useful rather than arty),
skepmaking (especially reproductions of period pieces such as 17th century skeps),
natural history (I used to be a biology teacher years ago) and
languages (try me in French, German, Russian, Spanish or Esperanto).
As an amateur self-taught horn player in a couple of local orchestras, I have often played the right notes and quite often in the right order (but not always).
To hear me play come to concerts by the Wolverton Light Orchestra or
The Open University Orchestra, both in Milton Keynes, England.
Next Concerts:-
OUO July 7th 1.00pm, All American programme: Sousa, Bernstein, Copland.
In the Old Lecture Theatre, O.U.
WLO July 7th 7.30pm, "Music from the Musicals". Includes items from local
schools. In the West End Church, Wolverton.
Beekeeping events I am involved with are listed on the TALKS page
Website last altered/updated on June 22nd, 2009
NEW ADDITIONS:
June 22nd new photos of cycle baskets - WILLOW BASKETS page
June 16h a new page:
My experience with bees living in a reproduction Greek Top Bar Skep of 1682,
as illustrated in Dr Eva Crane's article in "The Hive And The Honeybee".
I am re-writing the skepmaking pages in the beekeping section and have been adding photos. The aim is to give you all the information to successfully make your own skep.
Some of my "mediaeval" skeps are appearing in a new film that will star Cate Blanchett and Russel Crowe as Maid Marian and Robin Hood. The beekeeper in the film is Friar Tuck !
You can see some of the skeps on the SKEPMAKING page
NEWTON BLOSSOMVILLE is where I live.
"I bet that address looks good on a honey jar label!"
You will find several websites about the village if you Google search.
The village is in the northern end of Buckinghamshire, England, now part of Milton Keynes, although it is in the countryside well outside the "New City" area.
About 250 of us live here in about 90 houses. The name means "New Farm belonging to Blosseville". New 900 years ago, that is.
The Blosseville name comes from Normandy in France - the story is that the village was given to one Duc de Blosseville by King William I.
We have visited Blosseville sur Mer and one or two people from there have visited us, including some whose family name is still Blosseville.