Hello Folks!
It is a worrying phenomenon that bees appear to be disappearing. Our buzzy friends who provide honey, wax and pollination for many plants appear to have contracted some kind of deadly eradicator, believed to be a disease, a parasite or a toxin that has gotten into their food supply and is killing them off. What a stinger! Somebody (although apparently not Albert Einstein) said that if the bees die, we die, and this is not something I am personally making a bee line to achieve! Even Liam Gallagher has jumped on the bandwagon, with his band Beedy Eye doing a Bee Benefit! Here is a bee-related poem to make my thoughts known (for the purposes of this poem, it should probably be pointed out that an ‘apiary’ is the official name for a beehive, not a place where apes live!):
I believe that bees truly are the bees knees!
They buzz around honeys, and honey prevents disease
Without them, we’d have no songs by John Cleese
About when half a bee would not be!
Please, please, please help the bees!
Singing, la de do, la de dee
Please, please save the bees!
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Please, please save the bees!
One day I would like to see
Apiaries and wormeries
Living in perfect harmony
Side by side on my patio garden, Oh Lord, why don’t we?
That’s my whole nectar point.
Makes you think, doesn't it? If you want to help, check out these web campaigns:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/673/611/950/
http://bumblebeeconservation.org/
http://cbgnetwork.org/4466.html
(Not that bees have webs, that’s spiders, but they like to help each other.)
You could plant some bee-friendly flowers or even get your own bee-hive to bee-friend them!
Stay free as a bee!
Tom Beead, Norwich Beepeace Membeer
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