Hi Headfry. My oh is really excited about taking up bee keeping, we have plenty of space and he has begun to amass the kit(so far, veil, gloves, jacket, smoker) but we're a bit stumped as to how to progress. Can you reccomend a really good book for getting started? We're not even sure how you go about obtaining any bees, okr which hive to chose yet!! Rather than go into it blind and possibly provide inaddequate homes for the bees we really need to lean a lot asap!