Bee Illustration from Honey Mountain by Emily Taylor
Well, we’ve been following Boris’s Roadmap for the whole of this month and, as expected, we haven’t gone anywhere yet. That will change in April, we hope, and the prospect of going further afield and meeting with friends is mind-bogglingly exciting!
We’ve had the usual events in March, of course – St. David’s Day, Mother’s Day, Women’s Day, The Six Nations Championship, The Spring Equinox and an additional one off, the more unusual “Commemorate a Year Since the First Lockdown Day”. I’d like to suggest “Return of the Bees Day” as a National Celebration. A bit difficult to fix of course as it’s weather permitting and regionally variable, so it probably won’t take off. I don’t think the weather is always permitting anyway because bees are not partial to freezing cold temperatures, wild wind or miserable downpours of the March variety. However, there have been some warm sunny days on which our lovely little stripy busily buzzing chums have emerged to give delight.
One flew out of a hole in next door’s garage wall, did a bit of a jig followed by a wheelie then flew back in again. Why? Had it forgotten something? I waited for a couple of minutes, but it stayed in there. I concluded that it hadn’t liked the look of me.
This week Emily Taylor is taking a new turn in her artistic career by becoming a Bristol street artist. She has been commissioned as one of an all-female group to paint their designs on six houses in Bedminster. The project is to be finished for the reopening of shops in April and will become the largest street art venture in the UK.
That’ll give me plenty of blogging material for next month!
