Bee lecture

Yes I am in danger of becoming obsessed but I have just ordered a copy of ‘A World Without Bee’s’, a book written by The Guardian’s deputy Society Editor Alison Benjamin and her geography teaching, bee keeping husband Brian McCallum. I decided I should read the book as last week I went along to a publicity lecture to promote it. I didn’t really know what to expect but the news room was filled to bursting, and not just with bee keepers but with ordinary people like me who have heard that bees are having a hard time and no one seems to know why. If I learned one thing about bees that night it was that there are an awful lot of people out there who are bee fans, quite right so, they need all the help they can get.