To 'bee' or not 'to bee'🤭

[PeppermintPatty]

i taught at a school where kids had a chance to grow food and prepare it in conjunction with their humanities classes mostly. They had an apple press but never called it a mangle. I do find differences in English usage, vocabulary and spelling interesting.

Like yourself, I didn’t know what a mangle was but understood when I looked closer at the picture. There are differences in the English language.

 

[Marie5656]

A friends late parents kept bees. Made honey and sold at farm markets

 

[RobinWren]

i taught at a school where kids had a chance to grow food and prepare it in conjunction with their humanities classes mostly. They had an apple press but never called it a mangle. I do find differences in English usage, vocabulary and spelling interesting.

My mum had a mangle which was used for pressing the water out of the clothes on wash day, it was just like the one in holly dollys garden. Although a work of art, now, wash day was a lot of work. I'll have to look up apple press.

 

[Jace]

Following up..on the title...
How does a bee find its way back to its own hive
after a busy day of gathering nectar?

Every hive has it's own distinctive smell, released by the bodies of the bees, which is picked up by their sensitive antennae.

 

[Murrmurr]

Yep, my husband was very into bee keeping in a small way.. me not so keen.. he's gone but I still have the Hive..

Do you maintain it, or did you leave it all up to the bees?

 

[hollydolly]

Do you maintain it, or did you leave it all up to the bees?

No it's empty. Now I'm alone I don't want the bees making hives, so I've blocked it up...they have plenty flowers to feed on tho'..

 

[Murrmurr]

No it's empty. Now I'm alone I don't want the bees making hives, so I've blocked it up...they have plenty flowers to feed on tho'..

Yeah, they're pretty labor-intensive. When I was a kid there were 4 or 5 hives on the farm and one of the farmhands was out working on it at least twice a day.