Heather Honey (What's so special?)

We took the Blue Team to the heather moors in August, just as the ling flowers
were beginning to show that lovely purply shade.
The weather has been pretty bad, but the northern honey bees will work as
soon as the temperature is right(about 15C).
We brought a full super home last week and now we have some more comb in
the hive we have brought home.
However, extracting heather honey is a problem because it isn't runny like most
flower honeys.  It's a jelly and doesn't spin out of the comb.  The jelly is
thixotropic which means if it is stirred it becomes a liquid.  Stirring it in the comb
is possible but very labour intensive.  The usual way is to cut the comb into chunks
and eat the honey and the wax.  Delicious!  especially on hot breakfast toast.
The flavour and colour are like no other.   People round here ask for heather honey
and they're quite prepared to pay the extra price. 
It has to cost more because taking bees to the heather rquires special management
of the colony and the prep. and packing of the comb is highly labour-intensive.
The heather-honey season is very short - around 2-3 weeks; so production is low.
Back to tucking up the bees for the winter - today we start feeding them their winter
stores. (1kg sugar: 1l hot water)
'Bye for now XXQBXX