Bee Attack--Kurt Chambers

I haven't been able to write a blog this week. Sorry everyone, life has become more than a little insane this last week. So rather than not post anything, I will post a little story from my own blog. Sorry if you've already read it, but for those that haven't this is my bee story :) A few years ago, more than I care to remember, I was having a kids party for my eldest daughter. We was going to have a bouncy castle in the garden amongst other things. I needed to clear out the garden about a week before. There was an old carpet near the back door. I dragged it to the back of the garden and dumped it behind the shed. It was early evening and I was wearing my Arron (fisherman's) jumper (sweater) this day. I noticed there was a LOT of bees around all of a sudden. Big, fat bumble bees! I stood watching them for a while wondering why there were so many in my garden before it dawned on me there must be a bees nest in the carpet. I quickly rushed indoors to warn my wife to close the windows and make sure the children didn't go in the garden to play. We stood looking out of the kitchen glass door watching these bees milling around in a swarm just outside the kitchen window. We could hear them buzzing even from here. I clearly remember turning to my wife and saying, "Man! They are well loud. It's almost sounds as if they are in here with us!" ...lol... Yes, typical me, famous last words and all that. I looked down and saw this MASSIVE bee clinging to my thick wooly jumper, trying it's hardest to sting me to death ...lol... I screamed like a girl and legged out of the front door. Lesley, my wife, stood watching me running around the car park like a loony trying to knock this thing off. I vaguely remember her wetting herself laughing in the background and pointing at me, as you would I guess. After running in circles for a while waving my arms wildly, I stopped panicking and looked down. It was STILL THERE! I went mental again, hahaha!! It must have looked proper funny! :D A bloke came round from the Environmental Health office and told us that bumble bees are becoming rare these days because nobody wanted them as they didn't make honey. He persuaded us to keep the carpet until they left the nest later on in the year, and promised they wouldn't be a problem. Some of the nest lining had fallen out and the bees were flying around it trying to find the nest, so we spent the next week catching bees in a glass and guiding them to the carpet behind the shed, haha!! We had the party and he was right, we never even noticed the bees were there :)