02/04/2016

LE CHAPEAU MANQUANT [The Missing Hat]

While The Bees and their children were sunning themselves on Brighton Pier yesterday, Wilson was in the garden wearing his Inspector Maigret trilby and searching for Uncle Zoltan's hat — which has been missing since Storm Katie last week.

Sgt. Lucas (Antony) and Inspector Janvier (Tiny Toy) are going 'door-to-door' and taking statements from the sTone Brothers and Diesel the Goldfish.


Suddenly, Wilson shouted, 'Sacré Bleu! I've found it!'


Uncle Z came flying over and was trying to decide whether to grudgingly thank W or just take his hat and ignore him, when Wilson shouted again, 'April Fool!'


Hornets and other more aggressive members of the Wasp genus are known to react badly to japes, jests and practical jokes of all kinds — this is well known by entomologists, and I'm a bit surprised W wasn't aware of it.



01/04/2016

BEES' BLOG

We bees have a saying: "It's the Early Bee that Catches the Pollen" and we were up bright and early this lovely Spring day!

By mid-morning we'd made a couple of little jars of honey (like those you get in Tea Rooms) so we buzzed off (haha — did you see what we did there?) to Brighton so the children could have a day on the pier while the sun was shining.


What with it being April Fools Day, we think Wilson is planning some merriment at home, but it's probably best if we keep out of the way — you'll surely hear all about it soon enough!


We're the Bees and we'll see you next month! Until then, Beeeeeeeee Good!


"Buzzed off!" Hahahahaha...


30/03/2016

INSPECTOR MAIGRET

Wilson was greatly impressed by the new Inspector Maigret which he watched on ITV over the Easter weekend.

He greeted me this morning: 'Bon Marché, New Dad!' and proceeded to tell me that if only his French were a little better [ie if he could speak it at all] he would consider moving to Paris and joining the Sûreté as a Detective. As he pointed out, he already has the hat!


So for the moment he is mooching about the house with Sgt. Lucas (Antony) and Inspector Janvier (Tiny Toy) looking for evidence of criminal activity.


And saying 'Zut Alors!' and 'Ah, la vache!' a lot.



28/03/2016

STORM KATIE

Wilson would like to reassure his friends and family that he is alright, having survived Storm Katie

The tempest has now more-or-less passed over Uckfield, although it has left what he describes as a 'trail of unprecedented devastation' in its wake.


No-one was injured, although Uncle Zoltan's hat blew off and he's out in the back garden with most of the children searching for it. 


He's not in a very good mood. 

W and Antony are surveying a fallen tree (the only damage we sustained) and discussing how best to deal with the aftermath of the hurricane...



27/03/2016

UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE

Today is not only, as Wilson insists on calling it, Good Sunday, it is also the first day of British Summer Time. 

Last night W offered to put the clocks forward, so when we awoke this morning we wouldn't have to wonder what time it was.


Wilson is not allowed to open any of his Easter Eggs until 10am but I was unaware that when he advanced the clocks he moved them THREE hours forward... so "10am" arrived a lot more quickly than I had anticipated.


So it was that dawn had barely broken when I heard W and his family opening their chocolate treats. I glanced at my (unadjusted) watch and saw it was just 7am, but when I went to remonstrate with W he just pointed at the wall clock and continued munching...


Today is also the day of that great British Institution: The University Boat Race. 


Wilson takes this very seriously and is a staunch supporter of Oxford (unless they're WELL behind, when he'll seamlessly start to support Cambridge) so this afternoon everyone settled down in front of the telly to watch the race while finishing up their eggs.