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>The Double Fisherman's Knot seemed to be the best joining knot. Most all of the joining knots required backup knots.
I always knew the single version of this knot as the Englishman's knot - and understood that it was the knot that weakened the rope the least - and that must have been 65 years ago!
But whether single, double or with more turns, as in the blood knot, it remains the best for joining two lengths of rope, string or wool (when it is known as the 'magic' knot).
In my very early years we fished a lot - with much time spent in or around the sea. In those days the main problem with knots involved nylon fishing line - although tying knots was probably less of a problem than trying to sort out tangled lines when a cast had gone disastrously wrong!
Perhaps we will now move on to discuss our favourite knots - although Aaron may have a view on that! I will get in before he does and suggest that the Highwayman's Hitch has always been one of my favourites - although the Hangman's Noose came a close second.
But we digress! There seems to be very little about bees here recently.
In the South Midlands of the UK we are having one of the worst years that I can remember - and all down to the weather. Colonies looking healthy, but the countryside was like a desert through April and May when colonies should have been expanding - so we do not have the force of bees to take advantage of what may be available now. Perhaps August will reverse some of that but I think that it will be too late to make up sufficient nucs that normally act as such good insurance against winter losses. It is particularly galling when I read in association newsletters from other parts of the country - where they had rain - that crops are wonderful and they are struggling to cope with all the swarms.
As they say, all beekeeping is local.
Best wishes
Peter
52°14'44.44"N, 1°50'35"W
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