Category Archives: Humour
Chinook Honey Festival
Chinook Honey Farm’s Honey Harvest Festival was today, near Okotoks, just south of Calgary. As always, Art and Cherie entertained their hundreds of guests with lots of games, demonstrations, and programs. The farm has a great meadery with a wide … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Friends, Humour
Tagged bee beards, Chinook Honey Farm, honey festival, humiliated donkey
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John’s Locusts and Honey
Yummy. The on-line feeder blog, The Daily Meal, has a provocative article this month: Beekeeping Out; Locust-Keeping In. The short article extols the virtues of chewy bugs as alternative food sources for desperate folks in Saharan Africa. It does not … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Hive Products, Honey, Humour, People, Strange, Odd Stuff
Tagged carob, honey in religion, locusts
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Bee Stings and Bathtubs
Well, the bees are getting a bad rap in Britain. Here’s a headline from a Herald Sun newspaper this month that shouts, “BEE stings kill as many people in the UK as terrorist attacks do”. We don’t doubt the veracity … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Humour, Stings, Strange, Odd Stuff
Tagged bee stings
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