I had Paul helping me again today with the bees, here he is in Chris's bee-suit. His job was using the smoker when needed and passing me 2 spacers at a time to put on the frames. He was great, no fear at all.

 Got some frame spacers from Wesley, the idea is you place them on every second frame and it encourages the bees to draw the frames out further and the box requires one less frame. It should make the frame easier to uncap and extract. Time will tell...