{"id":73,"date":"2007-08-12T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/?p=73"},"modified":"2018-08-21T10:16:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T09:16:39","slug":"first-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"First sting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe it more than a year after I started this beekeeping malarkey I got my first bee sting right in the head. Luckily Brian &#8211; who must have had a least a dozen stings by now as he&#8217;s far too macho to wear gloves or socks when opening the hives- didn&#8217;t have the video camera to hand because I didn&#8217;t handle it very well. In fact, I screamed and screamed. I&#8217;m sure you would have done if a bee had got caught in your very thick, long, curly hair. The reason I wasn&#8217;t wearing my bee suit was because I was just standing in our small garden in Battersea at the time. Unfortunately, however, I was in the bees&#8217; flightpath.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xavy.fr\/-air--90-pas-cher.html\"><\/a> I could hear the bee buzzing but there was nothing I could do to get her out of my hair. No amount of shaking would work; probably just made her dizzy and angry.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xavy.fr\/basket--air--1.html\"><\/a> While Brian was trying to find her amongst my locks, I felt a piercing sensation, like a sharp pin prick.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fjallravenkankenuk.me.uk\/\"> Backpacks  <\/a> A few seconds later he pulled her out.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alter48.fr\/-air--90-femme.html\">  90 femme<\/a> If you thought I had it bad, she was dismembered. Half her abdomen was still attached to the sting she&#8217;d deposited in my head.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fjallravenkankenuk.me.uk\/k-aring-nken-mini-uk.html\"> Mini<\/a> She would die very soon afterwards, whereas I took an antihistamine and just had a wee bump the following day. Thankfully, no anaphylactic shock to report. It wasn&#8217;t so bad. I have been told that rubbing an onion onto a bee sting reduces the swelling but in this case not ideal for the hair. Weather&#8217;s perked up last few days. Hoping for some honey by the end of month.<br \/>You&#8217;ll see that this entry is officially posted by myself.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mochilas-kanken.com.es\/mochilas-fjallraven-kanken-mini.html\"> Mini<\/a> Although I&#8217;ve posted at least half the entries on this site (remember Brian was away when I first got the bees last June) we&#8217;ve been doing it all under one name. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe it more than a year after I started this beekeeping malarkey I got my first bee sting right in the head. 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