One wonders at times about the sanity of our council seat-warmers. What has got me worked up is the idiots want to limit the number of beehives to two per household, Where is the sanity in this?

How many people have hives? I don't know anyone who has hives. I have seen a couple, yes, but how can more than two hives be a problem when we are close to being desperately short of bees?

Today, August 26, I saw my first bee since the onset of the colder months. Normally I would see plenty. We need bees. I wonder how these poor councillors, who must suffer from melissophobia, are going to control where bumble bees nest?

Yes, I know there are people who can suffer badly following a bee sting, and that is a case where perhaps the number of hives could be controlled for public safety, but blanket control is really out of the question. Without bees we are stuffed.

A Bourne, Bethlehem (Abridged).