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Bees. Can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Of course we can live with bees, just don’t rent a house with them as they are renowned for leaving dirty towels on the bathroom floor and trying on all your coats while you’re visiting Harry Hail and the West Wind, not to mention terrorising the moths, who may not be as clever, but don’t deserve the mocking.
Bees do hold the best parties ever mind you…
They’re buzzin’.
bows and sidles away quickly
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I once witnessed a demonstration of how to transfer a natural swarm of 30k-40k bees from a bush to a nearby wooden hive. I had just moved into a new house and as I wandered down the garden I noticed that my neighbour (Colonel Twigger) was a beekeeper. He seemed quite eccentric but gestured for me to clamber over the stone wall which was the boundary to our respective properties so as to watch him make the transfer. I asked for protective wear but he insisted it was entirely unnecessary even though he was wearing full protective kit himself. It all went very well, largely in silence, and very soon afterwards I discovered Colonel Twiggers was in the intermediate stages of dementia and had frequent psychotic/delusional episodes.
P.S. I have bees in my garden right through from Spring to late November due to a wonderful Abelia Grandiflora, which, unbeknownst to me before planting it, bees seem simply to adore.
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What a marvellous comment, a mini story in itself, thank you Hariod for that beams. I shall note down the name of that plant, I’d happily have a place for a few bees up on the Cloud.
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I think I had a narrow escape with the old Colonel Sonmi; he really wasn’t quite the ticket and I subsequently gathered that I was in some danger. What happened was that the old boy shook the bush that the great swarm was hanging from in the hope that it would fall as one onto a sheet he had placed beneath it so as to gather the bees up for transfer. Thankfully, this did happen, though apparently sometimes the bees can get upset and will set upon the intruder(s). Old ‘Twiggers’ would have been fine in his protective gear, but not me in my shorts and T-shirt!
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By the Gods you did have a lucky escape! Old ‘Twiggers’, blimey, he’d have had you wearing a beard of bees and not batted an eyelid by the sounds of it. I’m laughing, though shouldn’t be really be finding potential physical harm and actual mental illness so amusing. But then you have to laugh or you’ll go mad and start wearing a beard of bees, so a chortle or two is allowed I think. I also knew a beekeeper, a female one. Her dogs tended to want to play with the bees and didn’t learn any lessons along the way though, so twas a short lived hobby.
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Old Twiggers used often to complain to me that during the night some unspecified ‘they’ would break into his house (it was huge and ramshackle) and steal ‘another’ of his dining chairs. The weird thing was, he never seemed to run out of them. . .
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He sounds straight out of a game of Cluedo – ‘Old Twiggers did it – in the dining room, with a wooden chair and a bag of bees’.
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The gig was funny, but his suit, awesome!
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Ha! Yes, Mr Izzard is one of the most stylish men to walk the earth I believe, and he rocks a skirt just as well as trousers.
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Eddie Izzard is a genius of wit. He can make everyday human behavior seem absurd, which I suppose it is 😀
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He is indeed. I have a deep love for Eddie and have been fortunate to see him live three times. This present tour is as fine as ever. I’m pleased you are a fellow admirer of his smiles.
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