My friend Lucy is worried about her Nigella-inspired honey-baked-Christmas-ham.
It seems that Rowse, the UK's biggest honey producer, has warned that stocks of English honey will run out by Christmas.
According to the British Beekeepers Association, in this article in The Independent, production is running at about half its normal level.
Apparently, the little blighters are plagued with varroa mites and are dropping like, well, bees. They couldn't cope with the wet summer and there's not enough borage for them to feed on (most growers have moved over to wheat.)
With foreign honey prices set to treble, Lucy is grimly contemplating a far-less-festive nutroast. She promises to keep Field Day readers informed of developments.
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