BH goes off to the church across the road where the cleaner is able to tell her that one of the village bee keepers lives just down the road. They get knocked up and they trundle up the road with the paraphernalia of their trade. They start to poke around, quite unbothered by the bees, and the makings of a swarm is revealed hanging off a bush behind the bench. With quite a lot of bees on the ground under.
We leave them to it, to come back to the scene of the snap some hours later, with just a few bees now buzzing about. We presume that most of the bees are inside the inverted basket to the left of the snap and that the bee keepers are waiting for the right moment to carry them off to their new hive. In the meantime, the whole area is roped off and signed. We wondered about the law of property as regards wandering swarms.
The other drama of the day concerned what I had taken to be a FCH coming into Southampton on the noon high tide. I had been fondly thinking that perhaps it was the Barchester Rose, launched in time for the last season by the wife of the owner of Barchester Homes. She had thought to use the names of characters from Trollope's Barchester novels - names like Griselda Grantly - but, sadly, that was vetoed by the marketing people.
However, back home and back online, no cruise liner appears to have docked in Southampton at that time. Further poking suggests that it was not Portsmouth either. Still further poking and I find that it is yet another Brittany Ferry, the MV Normandie, albeit a big one carrying more than 500 vehicles and 2,000 passengers. Big disappointment.
The only upside is the discovery of a website which tracks ships in real time, in much the same way as those websites which track aeroplane movements. Feed in the ship identifier and off you go. See reference 1.
Reference 1: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9006253.
Reference 2: the whole FCH saga can be traced from http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/fchw.html.
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