Or should that be a swarm of bees? Whatever......there were lots of the little fellers attached to a small tree in our front yard late yesterday. One even had the temerity to come inside with Himself when he returned home just after dark, and it stung me on my thumb (which is a bit of an ouch).

So this morning we rang a local beekeeper who came with a smoker, and a box for the queen bee and her groupies, and a few hours later he took the box away. But there are still quite a number of bees hanging onto a branch, hopefully they will now follow the queen to wherever she has gone?

The small tree is right beside the letterbox, which makes checking the box rather a fraught exercise. What with a glass cooking dish exploding in the kitchen the other night, and a bee swarm, it's never dull here on the hill.

Cheers
Jennie