bees and things

Well it's my Friday night and I haven't even posted yesterday's.

So what did I do yesterday. 

Thurs 02-02-2012

I saw this odd wasp - honey bee hybrid...

It has the wasp like stripes bright and distinct.

But its back is black and it is stocky like a honey bee,

or even a blow fly.

It sounds like a bee - blowfly, and moves like a hover fly.

First time I've ever seen one.

It loved this tall purple weed with alyssum type flowers.

It even went away and returned with a partner.

I also took this pic.

Of the metallic blue ladybird (ladybug) 

amongst the spikes of the Swan Plant seed pods.

I was pleased with the clarity of this photo.

I stopped to smell the roses.

The scent of this 'antique pink' rose is divine.

I noticed this young adult praying mantis.

Living amongst the spines of this cactus and seeming to
lay in wait for prey to get caught in the spider's web that's 
weaved between the 1.5cm spines.

Clever insect!

I picked these juicy strawberries.

and ate them yum!

Then I plaited wool yeah 3 plait - plaits in many many colours.

I listened to the podcast of

The Twistable Turnable Fringe - Mushroom FM

hosted by

@SkyheRing & @techring

I love these guys banter, they play some great music!

But the banter is fun, funny & a lil crazy.

You have to check it out!

You'll love it!

I started crocheting these...

I call them 'Aztec Suns' 

I love this blue, yellow and green one. 

Then I grabbed another Mushroom podcast for the

Sit and Spin show hosted by @silly_singer

She played some beautiful songs I'd never heard before

and some really good covers to.

A great show to accompany my night.

Listen to the podcast you will enjoy.

I then read more of 

Claude Bouchards (exciting) Discreet Activities

before a 2am kip.

lenticular clouds

Of Wednesday 1st of Feb 2012

I went to buy the luscious faceted ruby glass hearts

They were sold out!

The site that supplies them only sells wholesale

to registered businesses.

I took photos of clouds.

Some lovely lenticular clouds.

They looked so gorgeous, soft & cuddly.

I could imagine curling up in them zzz...

If only we could box them...

Anyway night came and with it

The Beer Fridge with Anthony Horvath

aka @kiwisnake

Great rock songs from Alice Cooper, G'n'R to Rainbow

who I heard for the first time last night 

I you tubed Rainbow later wow...

Gates of Babylon

Love the voice & the music nice to drift off to Nod on.

I noticed the name

 Ritchie Blackmore & Blackmore's Night

on the same You Tube page.

I know a few Blackmore's Night songs

I love this one

Renaissance Faire

So I was surprised I'd not fallen over Rainbows

music before.

Sometimes my world seems so small.

We nattered Anthony, Steph aka @ephphy & I

about fluffies, french knitting, Green Day and puppies!

Join the convo sometime...

 Im @lovenunrg

Also talked about my mind being under stimulated.

There by resulting in terror dreams.

Anthony suggested a good book and I had been thinking...

About an awesome tweeter/author

Claude Bouchard aka @ceebee308

As I saw an ad for his latest novel

Discreet Activities 

go by in the side bar on facebook it sounded amazing!

So I went to Amazon jumped on a Cloud and got 

Claude Bouchard's Discreet Activities 

on my Kindle Cloud Reader.

Easy as Pie!

I'm enjoying the story so far.

 Some pretty cool characters like Ms Robb.

I'm looking forward to getting to know them 

all a little bit better.

So with Rainbow and Discreet Activities

I ended my night.

Thursday 02-02-2012