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Cats owned: 1 Persian and one b/w moo-cat mog
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Reading, Berkshire, UK
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28-11-2008, 02:30 PM   #21

Re: Bees


I use runny honey in lots of things, including bolognaise sauces, salad dressings and to glaze veggies.

I tend not to use it on toast as it ends up running all over my hands (I have rye-bread toast which doesn't absorb to the same extent), so prefer the set clover honey for toast or sarnies.

That's interesting about the loaning of hives and bees. I really will read up on it some more when I don't have a small boy trying to throw himself down stairs or stuff cats up chimneys (yes, really )



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Cats owned: Leia: blue torbie
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Location: Washington, DC, USA
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28-11-2008, 05:25 PM   #22

Re: Bees


Kazz, we have that bit here also about "telling the bees". Presume it was brought over by the English settlers in the Colonial days. I'm quite allergic to bee stings (not really bad like anaphylactic shock) and had to go to the ER last time I was stung many years ago! So I tend to avoid them, although sadly there are fewer around now due to the vanishing ...



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