I love honey. Always have. My first memories were of sitting in a school cafe near Albuquerque NM where my parents taught and we lived on campus. My parents weren't around and I was under the care of high school students. I remember seeing them pour honey on top of Rice Crispies. I was 3. That was it. I was in love.

image via david.nikonvscanon

 

[I also loved to chase Road Runners in NM just like Wiley Coyote. Sometimes they flew, if only to the lowest branch in a tree]

My first memories of bees weren't so fond. I remember running around barefoot in Fresno California (major agricultural area) through fields of clover and stepping on a bee. I also remember walking along on a path and getting stung by a bee. I remember sitting in the back of a car and a bee flying in through the window smacking into me and stinging me.

[I've been peed on because of bees]

I remember Jessica, the brainy one in 2nd grade, being stung by a bee and watching her swell up. That was scary.

I remember hunting down bees and pulling their stingers out and staring at their sacks of venom. 

I remember in Orange County, meeting up with friends who took me to the biggest stack of bee hives I have ever seen with hundreds of thousands of bees in the air and miraculously not being stung. Riding a bike through a cloud of bees and not getting stung. 

Then and there I started to make peace with bees.

[This man has also made peace with bees, he looks like my friends dad via TreeHugger]

 

When I visited New Zealand and went to the Agrodome and saw a wall of bees I wanted one too. They are a part of my ideal dream home. 

[Strata laws, sadly, are anti-bee]

Bees also remind me of the Ape car. Or the beekepeer mobile (ape = bee in Italian). 

Ape Car via iz4ks

Medihoney made from the nectar of the New Zealand Manuka flowers is anti bacterial. I've never had a sore throat take hold since discovering it. Medihoney comes in several grades of antibacterial activity from 10+ for around $10AU to 40+ which is around $40AU a bottle. 

I once gave medihoney cream to a man covered head to foot in eczma scabs. He faithfully put it on his body for several days. It didn't make a difference. Not totally the fault of the medihoney as the doctor said most likey his reaction was due to the 4 packs of cigerates a day and heavy drinking. So it doesn't cure everything.

[doesn't hurt to try] 

But enough about me and bees and honey. Listen to the expert in the video I took below at the Easter Show. It was the highlight of my day. 

 

 

 

It was a lazy Saturday with drizzling rain that during our weekly siesta a poem came to visit. It came much in the same manner as described by Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love). The exhaustion of caring for our newly born lay Rebecca to sleep as soon as her head met pillow. I had just put Oskar to sleep and had settled Matilda, 3 weeks new, and laid my head anxiously to rest.

And so I shut my eyes and clear as crystal the soft murmur of a poem was composed in my head. I remember the feeling of the poem and only the last phrase as it turned somewhat prophetic.

"...and nature will comfort you"

As the poem finished Matilda cried, I picked her up knowing the siesta had eluded me. I then heard in the distance a squawking. The Rainbow Lorikeets then landed on our balcony and I happily feed them apples while baby was carried to sleep by cheerful chirping.

Checking out how Posterous handles document attachments sent via email

In case you haven't deigned to notice, faux deer are the next big thing. Two examples I can think of right off:

• Twitter have $100M dollars to invest in the company and they splatter their offices with birds and deer (wobbly tour here).
• I find a copy of British Vogue January 2010 laying around the house in December. Thumb through to a story featuring a model and her family to find a faux deer head was given as an anniversary present.The deer head gets prominent article placement.

Several months ago I was considering a faux head for Christmas or a birthday. Nothing's eventuated yet.

See a few of the images I've gathered from various internet vendors, thanks to a couple of Google image searches. My favorite is the white laquer'ed head and the angry looking paper mache head that upon closer inspection is not splattered with blood but tiny Red Cardinals.

List of faux deer head links:

Paper Mache Etsy Store
White Laquer
Cactus Creek Daily - Mount Guide
Silver Deer Head
I Love Uma - Carved Wood Deer Heads
Domestikated Life - Deer Diary (Porcelain antelope and knitted)
This Next - Metal Stag and Deer Heads
Deer Head Vase

and many more: Google Image Search

A cool green lizard iPhone skin case. Do you have a favorite iPhone skin? Now if I could just find one with dinosaur skin.

iPhone Textured Silky Lizard Green

Yellow items in our apartment:

• plastic dinner set
• cabinet
• bedside table
• mug
• bedroom print on canvas
• kitchen knife
• toaster

 

"Can Amazon, however cheap and efficient, pull off the same trick: help turn bored and unhappy children into literate and fulfilled ones? I don't think it can, and if that makes me spoilt, I can't say I give two hoots. I would rather pay a fair price for paperbacks than I would fund any number of loony government "initiatives".

Via Guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/nov/29/borders-bookshops-independent-lutyens-rubinstein