Q-Eye - 07 October 2011
From bee-keeping to rapping
Bees and their keeper
‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy’
Joan King of Bakewell Meeting, has reminded Eye of these famous words in Hamlet by William Shakespeare – and that life is sometimes full of surprises. She was recently very moved by the account of an unusual event. One day a beekeeper, who knew that he was dying, asked his wife to ‘tell the bees’.
During the night he died. The next morning his wife went to the bee hives and said to the bees ‘the master has died and I am your new keeper’. On the day of the funeral a swarm of bees flew into the church and settled themselves. At the end of the service they flew out again.
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