Travelling On

Karmacat

Good morning!  I had a beautiful walk on the edges of a local National Trust place yesterday - a big adventure for me, we drove there in my sister's car.  It's so long since I've been in a car I forgot to use the seatbelt 😂 though of course cars beep at you if you do that for any length of time.

We got harrassed by bees - I tried to do a little video twice, but the bees were being a bit forward ... are blue flowers a thing at this time of year?  We were both wearing blue of one sort or another.  Then a walk in a little piece of yew woodland, with lots of Canadian WWII foundations around, and a machine gun emplacement to protect them in case of invasion.  Layers and layers of history, it was great.

Terrible sleep though, which is why I'm on here comparatively early.  I'm going to hang about here for as long as I can, so it's an email morning.  Yawn.  I think I may need a nap.

greent

Bluebells and muscari (grape hyacinths) are both around in vast numbers here at the moment. Bees are, I believe, attracted to the colour blue (and laundry detergent with UV brighteners in, apparently!) 

Sounds a really good day - apart from the lack of sleep afterwards   x

Suffolk_lass

Yes, bees are attracted to blue. A white overblouse is meant to be a good solution. Their favourites in our garden are all blue - borage, perovska, echinops, verbena. Their compound eyes see the colour spectrum many times more acutely than we do. Smell is the other thing. We have been taught not to use perfumed soap or skin products, or spray on perfumes, and definitely no bananas (the smell it gives off mimics the alarm pheromone) 

Karmacat

Thank you both!  The smells might be another issue: I was wearing my usual White Musk Body Shop, and my sister may have had banana residue somewhere or other 🤣 she sort of lives on them.  

Likkel bees 💙 

Karmacat

Update: classic combo of dishwasher and washing machine, nice strong wind is drying lots, couple of emails done, but I'm holding off on the others - the next one on my list is an elderly widow, a distant relative, whose husband died of covid a year *today*, poor thing.  I've sent a sort of sympathy email; but I need to wait before resuming my list, or I'll forget.  I'm really not the most organised person you've ever known!

In hunting confirmation, though, I did a good job tidying the office - bits thrown away, bits filed, yadda yadda.  I'm literally falling asleep, though, so I'll hop outside and show my face to the sun  

Staffordia

Hi Karma, it's great that you are getting out and about, notwithstanding the bees following you!  After so long being cooped up I think we all appreciate our expanding freedoms.  We are taking our Motorhome out next week for the first time since October.  It's only 40 minutes away from home but it will be a change of scenery and hopefully give us a chance to chill out for a few days.

Here's hoping the summer is a good one.

Karmacat

Thanks Staffordia yes, I can't tell you how ridiculously excited I was to be in a car driving 5 miles from my home!  Your motorhome trip sounds wonderful - I'd dearly love something similar, maybe a small van on a car chassis, but I know it would be too stressful for me - the driving licence renewal is for ID, not actual driving ... 

And yes, lets hope the summer is a good one.  My patio seems good to sit out - I haven't yet, because of the walk yesterday, but it's definitely a good thing.

Cheery_Daff

Also hoping fir a good summer! We're certainly having a glorious week at the minute. I am SO much enjoying finishing work and getting straight outside. 

Thought of you lot yesterday when I popped into Waitflower - I know you probably weren't all waiting for the results of my laundry discount spotting but for the sake of completeness, here's what I saw 😁

Karmacat

Nice one, Cheery!  I do love a discount spotting

Not done much of that, or anything else, today - I thought I'd caught up on my sleep a bit last night, but I was soooo tired, I went to bed this afternoon - for 2 hours, it turned out   I haven't done that since I retired, but I really couldn't hack it any longer.  So absolutely nothing has been done, nothing whatsoever.  Oh, I sat out on the patio, with a book - a very old BBC one about a Victorian kitchen garden.  Lovely.

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, those things all sound extremely lovely!! 😍