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So little is known about female #beekeepers but this is Lucinda Harrison (1831-1904) from Illinois, US. Images include letters from Lucinda written to local children in 1882, advising them on correct #beekeeping clothing🐝 got to love bee-history!
@britishbee @BkaBev @BeeCraftMag
It's amazing what I'm achieving this week when I should be revising for my Beekeeping exam on Saturday 🥴 there's nothing like procrastination activities for getting things done, just not always the right things!
#procrastination #exams #beekeeping
In ancient China, bees (feng) and honeybees (Mi-feng) were first recorded 3000 years ago, beeswax candles (Mi-zhu) were gifted to Emperors, Hao Yi-xing wrote Record of a Bee Palace (Ya Xiao Ji) while Guo Puin & Luo Yin wrote poems about #bees
@BkaBev @britishbee @BeeCraftMag
To go with earlier tweets about #beekeeping in ancient Egypt and Greece, this is thought to be earliest depiction of honey gathering from palaeolithic times (8000 years ago) from cave painting in Arana Cave near Valencia, Spain 😃 @britishbee @britishbee @BeeCraftMag @beekeeper
the plan was 1 Prompt-a-Day course in April with the lovely Wendy Pratt @wondykitten and fellow poets @kate_kjenkinson @susisu371 @birdies & Co but saw #FoolsGoldTarotChallenge for #NaPoWriMo2021 with Angela Carr @adreamingskin...
never could resist the tarot...
2 it is then!
2/2 in this month's Ekphrastic Review, and first outing for part of Thetis, a retelling of the Trojan War through the eyes of the mother of Achilles. This section is about the death of Hector and was inspired by the Peter Paul Rubens painting.
https://t.co/I26q2Gxb0n
After a low week poetry wise, it's good to see a sample from Song of Kalypso in The Ekphrastic Review @ekphrasticrev plus this week's poetry course with the lovely @wondykitten is looking at prose poems.
Feeling a bit better now!🙂#ekphrastic #poetry
https://t.co/wsA9n1GLcz
Delighted to be in The Ekphrastic Review @ekphrasticrev in March. Both pieces are based on retellings of Greek myth, one where Kalypso begs Odysseus not to leave her (Frank Buchser) and the other describing the killing of Hector by Achilles (Peter Paul Rubens) #greekmythology
Another great zoom session with @wondykitten tonight, am wondering if there's such a thing as a prompt-poet, I think I might be one, or even if there's a prompt-addiction, because I think I might have it! 🤣 @kate_kjenkinson @susisu371 @CharlotteOlivr @Wunderstanding @JackieNews
Feeling ridiculously pleased to have added an SSL certificate and enabled a backup process, thanks @wpbeginner +
@ReclaimHosting for making the transfer from @WordPress (.org) to a hosted @wordpressdotcom blog possible.
Not much to look at yet but watch this space!