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The battle of the bees; part 2
I thought I'd won but discovered this morning, on my return from the tip, that the beasts had regrouped and were busy making another nest in the garage. Arrgh. I moved a plank of wood that was lying horizontally propped up against the left-hand wall to make space for another one and, in so doing, exposed about thirty of the blighters making cells for eggs. I stunned them with the fly spray and shovelled the foundations into a box and tipped it onto the nettles opposite. I shall have to inspect the site in the garage every day.
My mother visited my father in the care home today. He seemed comfortable, she said, but he said that he didn't want to stay there forever. 'There are some dotty people in here,' he told her. When I went to collect her later in the day, my father, ignoring my mother, had taken pole position by the telly and was watching the tennis.
There were two letters in the local paper complaining about the changes to the waste collection. Both correspondents had found maggots in their rubbish so collections every two weeks were not enough. They must have thrown away food and not wrapped it to keep flies out. Their families can't have learnt to judge how much they can eat.
Thought for today
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
Alan Bennett (1934 - ) A Question of Attribution, 1989
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