>My sting was a classic "do as I say not as I do" moment when inspecting a
colony on an overcast day, a no-no unless you are prepared to have the bees
take an interest in you.

If we did not work on overcast days we would not do much work here!

>No smoke and a loose veil, I bent over the colony,
the bottom of the veil was not tied so it opened like a funnel and every
bee that came up was directed right to my face...

I am reminded of a piece that one of our members wrote in our newsletter around 30 years ago.  He was a retired army captain, ran our association apiary, did a great deal of teaching and was the newsletter editor at the time.  He wrote that high explosives and beekeeping had a great deal in common in that carelessness with either could result in serious consequences.  He wrote this after an incident when he removed supers wearing just a green hat and veil (used to be common here) and neglected to tuck in the veil.  It opened out over a super and rapidly filled with aggressive bees.  The resulting stings put him in bed for three days!

Best wishes

Peter 
52°14'44.44"N, 1°50'35"W

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