Anyway, by this stage it was half past four and Mum said that we should find someone to take the bees away. She suggested that I ring the local butchers shop as they sold local honey. Not my first thought of action, but a sensible one. Mum always had sensible ideas in an emergency. The [...]
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Honey for Sale!
Posted in Bee Present, Beekeeping, Bylaugh on December 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Bee Stings on the Back
Posted in Bee Present, Bylaugh on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The only previous experience I had had with bees (at least I think they had been bees) was when we were living in Scotland about ten years previously. My brother and I had been out on a long walk in the countryside. About half a mile from home we had been larking around (as small [...]
What a Relief!
Posted in Bee Present, Bylaugh on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Mum came out of the house just at that moment. We shared the excitement with her. “Look!” I said “What do you think it is?” “It is a swarm of bees!” Mum said. Bees! There was a scientific explanation for all those mysterious happenings. And it lay in the fact that all these strange things [...]
The Appearance
Posted in Beetwixt & Beetween, Bylaugh on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The next second or two are a blank. Just as people in an accident can often remember some parts with extreme clarity and then blank-out, so I had a blank moment. I suppose it makes sense if you think about it. All these sensations and feelings piled up into a couple of seconds must mean [...]
Partial Eclipse of the Sun?
Posted in Bylaugh on July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My brain ticked fast to work out what was going on, but it did not come up with an answer! The only similar experience I had ever had like this was a few years before. I was getting off a bus with a load of other people in (what was then called) Rhodesia in Africa. The [...]
The Largest Aircraft Carrier in the World
Posted in Bylaugh on July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
And then the noise started. It sounded like a frenetic buzzing coming from the sun. I looked at my sister in sheer amazement. She looked back. We were used to the American air force jets buzzing about overhead. The local air force base often used the surrounding countryside as a mock war-zone. They flew particularly [...]
Spot-Dark
Posted in Bylaugh on July 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For about second (although it seemed like several) the darkening sun and the slowness of time was mesmerising. The haze still hung in the valley below. The willow still breathed not a whisper. I looked down the field to the trees near the road to see if there were any long shadows there. There weren’t. [...]
Cakes for Tea?
Posted in Bylaugh on July 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Mole trapping is not really a team sport and we soon became bored looking at Dad’s intensive trapping routines. So we went round to the willow tree to see if there was anything interesting going on there. Maybe Mum had made some cakes for tea and had put them out early. It was nearly 4 [...]
Moles and Mines
Posted in Bylaugh on July 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It was one of those hot, hazy summer days. The holidays seemed to have gone on for weeks. The willow in the garden was silent. Normally the willow rustled in a kind whisper from the slightest breeze. But today it was completely still. The air across the valley to Bylaugh hung like a hazy lazy [...]
From the Island of Honey
Posted in Bee Lore, Bylaugh on July 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the Bardic Triads it says that Britain was the “Island of Honey”.
