Iam just watching the daftest film yet, on the Sci-Fi channel about killer bees swarming around a house!!!
I am tempted to switch over but any more Only fools and horses and I will scream!!

The close ups of the bees are just pain ordinary honey bees that will certainly not harm you unless you harm them!! Its more than their lifes worth as, unlike a wasp, a honey bee only has one sting and if it looses that it dies!!
As a child I watched many of these killer bee films and subsequently became scared of bees, even more so in the summer time some time in the early 80's when one accidently flew down my Mums top while she was putting the washing out and she started to batter herself to kill the bee, which did sting her on the chest!
Back in the Spring of 1999, Derek and I took a picnik to a lovely spot in the country, next to a stream. It was a beautiful day, warm and very quiet and tranquil. I began unpacking the sandwiches, fruit, bread and a small quiche and just as I was a bout to pour my first plastic mug of tea from my flask, I heard a weird sound...
"Do you hear that?" I had asked Derek, my brain trying to figure out what this sound, which was almost like a quiet rumble, was? At first Derek had said no, but as the sound grew in strength, he had presently said "yes I do hear somthing now" and we both looked around to the back of us where the sound appeard to be coming from and at first I just saw trees and fields...then to my horror of horrors the quiet rumble became that fearsome mass buzzing you hear in the killer bee films. As I looked up with a sudden huge surge of adrenillin in my veins to my compleate terror I saw a grey patch in the sky...and it was darkening, getting bigger and very loud, and heading right in our direction!!!!!!!!
It was a swarm of some 80 thousand honey bees!!!!!!!!!!!
Briefly I remember looking down at the food I had just opened and I began to panic seriously, thinking the bees (like wasps or so I thought at the time) would some straight for the food...AND US!!!!!!!! "Derek" I had squeeled "we gotta run back to the car NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Now Derek does show his brains occasionaly and said to just sit tight, as he grabbed my arm and pulled me gently back into a sitting position! They are honey bees, he had simply said, they are looking for their new home!
What followed next was the most wonderfull and one of the most spectacular sights I have seen since I first gazed with bated breath, at the Taj Mahal in Agra!...A full swarm of honey bees swam like a living black cloud over our heads by only about 30 feet, not one bothered to come town to investigate our goodies! I swear I dident breath for about 20 seconds, as I watched, mesmerised by this awesome sight. The beautiful bees appeared to move as one with subtle ripples through the "bee cloud!" which is the only way I could discribe it!! and suddenly they were gone, over an oppersite hillock. Now like most things that scare people it is just fear of the unknown so after being treated to this amazing feat of Nature I began reading up on bees on the internet. Apparently when bees are out flying in a swam they are at their most docile because they are indeed focused solely on finding a new home for thier hive, which usually happens in early spring approx April time (as I remember this was a warm April day) and only when the weather conditions are absolutly perfect will they fly in their swarm to find a new home. Needless to say I am not scared of bees any more and infact I would like to have a go at bee keeping myself. They are fascinating creatures, who are the goveners of pollenation and nature itself, and now I have learned about them I think they are simply wonderfull!!
However I still hate wasps!! the scourge of the pub garden in summer!!!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!
Also some wasps kill spiders (which I love) In fact the story behind the "Alien" films is based on how some species of wasps, first paralise their spider and inject its eggs into the spiders body, so the poor spider is literally eaten from the inside out by the wasp lave, and the poor spider is paralized and is helpless to do anything about it...its also still alive untill the lave have eaten all the spider. Grousome I know, but this is nature, and why I hate wasps! Years ago I kept a Mexican Rosey Tarantula in a huge tank at my flat in Warrington but being a male he dident live long, and it broke my heart when he died...I would love to get a Cobolt Blue Tarantula!!! these rare and very beautiful "living Jewles" are very viscous and nasty which is ofcourse becuase of the fear of the wasp (they come from the same region in south America) it is recommended that owners of these gorgeous creatures NEVER handle them! Which is a shame as handling a Tarantula is an amazing and oddly a very relaxing expierence!
But watch this absolute LOONEY!!!!!!!!!!! handle his "Blue"



Notice that he is very gentle and is wearing little clothing which is the right was to handle Trantulars as their tiny claws get stuck in matieral.The bite from these spiders is painfull (I am told but I have never been bit) but no worse than a bee sting!

BTW phone is now fixed...apparently some vandles had damaged the wires in a box across the road! Gits!!!!

Some of you may have read that I have had laptop probs recently...well now its the turn of the phone.......

Last night I tried to give Mum her usual 9pm call but the phone (land-line that is) simply rang a couple of times and then went dead. I tried to call a few times more but to no avail, so I tried my mobile...UGH!! No charge, so I put it on charge and asked Derek if I could borrow his mobile so I could chat to Mum and only stayed onthe phonefor about 10 mins. This morning I woke to hear Derek making string of 4 letter expleatives from his office!!! What the heck was going on? I was thinking as its quite rare to hear him swear so badly. Apparently he had phoned the phone company on his mobile which then, at a crucial time in the conversation to the engineer, cut out because he had ran out of credit!!!!!!!
It never rains but it pours!!!!!!!!!
...and to top all this my mobile (which is contract) does not seem to be charging properly, and was still not fully charged this morning! Anyway it turns out an engineer is coming to sort out the phone later today, sometime in the afternoon! But what the heck is up with the charging of my phone as its an almost brand new Samsung and only takes about 2 hours to charge normally, if less. The only good thing about being on contract though is I can get a new free phone anytime, so if its broke I should have no trouble getting a relacement!
Ho hum....back later when hopefully it will be sorted!

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