The parking attendant – a guy who’d make Vin Diesel blush – was doing his rounds. Everyone dashed out to move their cars, including me. I jumped in and sped off to find a spot out on the road.
When eventually I’d parked up and was walking back, I saw a bumblebee lying on the pavement with its legs in the air. I didn’t want anyone to step on it, so I thought I’d pick it up with whatever came to hand and move it to the grass verge. I crouched down and began gently poking it with my diary. Whether the bee was sick or stunned I don’t know but it just lay there, buzzing furiously, waggling its legs, trying to buy enough of an angle to sting me.
A kid passed by. He had an odd expression on his face, and suddenly I saw how it must have looked to him: a nurse, kneeling down in the middle of the pavement, resuscitating a bee with the point of his diary.
He hurried on.
jim clayton 
I’m a bee person…I used to keep them, (honey bees though rather than bumble bees); loved your instinctive desire to save this one…
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I’ll always try to save bees, bumble or otherwise (I keep meaning to look up the difference). We’ve got a load of lavender in the garden and I love standing by it watching the bees work. At the risk of sounding obvious, they’re so freakin’ BUSY. It must take a lot of collecting to make a little bit of honey – so well done bees.
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If a bumble bee is good enough for Sherlock Holmes,he’s good enough for me.
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You lost me there. Mind you, I haven’t seen many episodes of SH (d’you mean the BC version?)
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The books Jim (just had to delete Spence there) .
Holmes retires to Sussex to look after his apiaries.
http://alistaird221b.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/sherlock-holmes-post-1903-bee-keeping.html
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I bet that comes up in a pub quiz sometime soon (so I suppose I ought to do some pub quizzes…)
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