Welcome
If you were to visit me today
this would be the first thing you saw
upon crossing the threshold
2 slightly squashed bees
brought home by Henry to be made better.
He’s very worried about the bees. We took a short walk on Saturday and found no less than 5 dead bees.
This can not be good.
So, I’m going to do my bit and adopt a bee hive.
Monday, June 28th, 2010 at 9:00 am
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June 28th, 2010 at 9:07 am
It’s nice to see that Henry is still very kind animal lover 🙂
June 28th, 2010 at 10:03 am
A bee hive, brilliant idea.
June 28th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
🙁 poor bees, tell Henry we have lots and lots of happy bees in our garden so not to worry too much. Great idea to adopt a hive, I may have to look into that one.
June 28th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
We also have lots of Honey Bees in our garden.
Adopting a hive is an excellent idea – but only look into it if you are wearing the proper protective clothing 🙂
Never mind Henry. Bees do tend to tire themselves out looking for pollen and the workers have only a short working life anyway (maybe three weeks).
It doesn’t seem long does it.
I do love the Honey though!
June 28th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
What a wonderful idea. When I was around five, our neighbor had hives and I never got stung. So no worry. That is such a generous idea. And the learning possibilities are terrific.
My dog, Frida, like to chomp on them. She has never gotten stung but they must taste sweet to her. I can’t figure out how to stop her, so I don’t try.
June 28th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
When I was a child I grew up with a beehive and I remember we went to pick them up (hive) and they were in a wire box and the sound was amazing… he will love it!!!
June 28th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
You are a lovely mum!
June 28th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
I’m sure you’ll have come across this BBC project already as its widely advertised, but if not it’s a great site with lots to make too! My friend runs a local Bee Part of It project and really recommends the activities to children in the schools she works in.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/beepartofit/
Adopt a hive looks like a great scheme, I love supporting small community projects, might get involved with my local one too!
June 29th, 2010 at 3:02 am
I remember when I was little, I was always bringing injured animals home and my kids did the same thing. The weirdest thing we had, was a possum baby. It’s mom was run over by a car and we noticed movement, the babies were still alive in her pouch. The rescue took them, but one has wondered off and we found it.
Debbie