Getting bees-y with it


I just had to post this photo of my nearest and undoubtedly dearest donning, for the very first time, the bee keeping suit I bought him for his birthday last week. It’s the combination of the gay astronaut look and the expression on our friend’s face (perhaps saying, “well ain’t that a typical pose”) that still has me cackling. That, and I’m not sure if her lovely daughter was simply asking her mum for a cuddle or was instead wondering if disaster was imminent.

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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

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Happy Birthday David


Today is my beloved’s 29th birthday, and the start of his week-long holiday, his first reasonable length absence from that damnable job. He works too hard and is worked too hard, and his boss even called this morning because no doubt the sky has already fallen in, all the computers’ hard drives have turned to syrup, and somebody’s having a baby in the broom cupboard, and it’s a problematic breach birth. Possibly twins.

What his employer doesn’t know is that David is under strict orders not to answer his work mobile all week, understanding that if he does, I will take said mobile and bury it somewhere within our town boundaries or maybe even beyond. And I mean it: time off from work is very important, and my beloved really needs this week to get some rest, and to put together his beehive.

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Monday, June 16th, 2008

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