Bees (Erics)

Just been down to the courtyard for a 'reward' ciggie after completing summarising and analysing 10 speeches..... ARGH!At this point, I feel like the chap in the cigar ad as I sit outside mulling the day's efforts and trying not to worry about the 'value add'.... when Eric appears (I should perhaps explain that all bees in the garden are called 'Eric', largely because it makes it easier when you are talking to them - and, no, I don't think they talk back to me... at least, not yet)...Anyway I'm distracted by Eric's insistent frotting of the new physostegia which has white flowers that look like very large sage flowers... at one point he literally is 90% inside a flower, with just a little bit of jiggling bee-bum and back legs hanging out.... and it really puts me in mind of a mechanic under the hood of a car....And then I'm grateful that bees don't have builder's bum......
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  • Frotting eh? That's not a term I'd heard before, so I just googled it .... your blogs are just so educational Cat! Although I'm not sure that I needed to know that....
  • I have a feeling it's a Northern word..... like bogat or ginnel.... ooop, that'll be google firing up, then.... wonderful thing, t'interweb....
  • A northern word ?! According to t'net, it's an activity much favoured by japanese business men on subway trains - doesn't sound like a word coined int' north country to me!

    Ginnels I've heard of - Mrs S grew up in a house that had one - but bogat you've made up haven't you? According to wikipedia it's a town in nothern Tajikistan (which makes it a northern word I suppose, but not in the way you're claiming!).
  • Spelling mistake!!!! Bogart or boggart - malevolent fairy.
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