Gavin wrote:

> The Parliamentary officials
> were asked to provide a fire-proof bin for the smouldering fuel so the 
> smokers
> could be extinguished before entering the building...

The fire-proof bin consisted of one small, empty, galvanised bucket and a 
plastic one with about an inch of water in it!  Perhaps it was just as well 
that there were only 350 beekeepers there.  We could have used a tank of 
water to cool the smokers as many were red-hot by this time.
Best wishes

Peter Edwards
beekeepers at stratford-upon-avon.freeserve.co.uk
www.stratford-upon-avon.freeserve.co.uk/

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