Thank you for joining me once again on Whimsical Wednesday when anything goes..wherever my thoughts take me or when something stops me in my tracks and makes think or when something just wows me…

So come with me and see what has astonished or wowed me this week and what memories have been evoked…I do hope you enjoy and please if it evokes any memories for you please share…

I love honey it has numerous health benefits and healing properties I am also so lucky that I have a source of fresh honey here…

World Honey Bee day is held on the 3rd Saturday in August which is this coming Saturday…Becoming more and more important as Honey Bees are under threat …  Playing an important role in our ecosystem threats to their habit, crop spraying with chemicals so many things are now threatening the existence of honey bees…

What should we do? 

HOW WE CAN OBSERVE #WorldHoneyBeeDay

• Collect and spread local wildflower seeds to promote honey bee pollination.
• Flavours of honey vary depending on the variety of flowers and nectar available to the bees.
• Clover, alfalfa, lavender, orange, and chestnut are just a few to choose from.
• Replace your usual sweetener with honey for the day. Taste the difference!
• Give the gift of honey to a friend, neighbour, co-worker or family member.

Don’t forget to share with your honey, too! Use #WorldHoneyBeeDay to post on social media.

Now for a short story…

.My Friend...

My mind, at sixes and sevens I strolled from Boat Avenue towards Bliss Beach Club…..would Annie like what I had carefully picked for her, a beautiful Pashmina and that cat…It had jumped off the shelf. Saying buy me!

The first to arrive, that Pineapple shake went down a treat.

It was lovely here…calm and peaceful, the waves gently lapping on the sand, telling a story to those who can hear.

Soft music, everyone carefree and beautiful.

A virtually cloudless sky!

Me, my heart is sad.

Sad Annie is leaving, sad that this beautiful island has lost its charm for my friend.

Sad for the girls who take what they want.

Sad for the men who think the girls really want them!

Sad for the innocent who will replace them.

A perpetual never-ending cycle.

Sad it won’t change for a while or even a long time.

So much sadness and yet what is displayed in front of me masks all that. Affluent men still attached to their phones, their home so far away… their eyes searching, predatory. .But who is the prey….they think they know…..But do they?????

Goodbye Annie. God bless, may you find peace and love when you get back home x

By Carol Taylor…

August 1971 …Paula and Linda McCartney released ” Back seat of my car”

 

London always has lots to do during the school holiday many exhibitions and shows to keep the kids(and0 parents happy…

This one will appeal to the boys, big or small and their dad’s…

BA 2019 Flights of the Future…

Look to the future of flying when jet propulsion and automation could be a reality.

Tube: Sloane Square Station

Dates: 1st to 26th August 2019

 

Floating markets...we have many here and they are exotic and quite spectacular…This one you will be able to find on the Grand Union Canal which is part of the British canal system when some of the barges will be opening their hatches as from today 14th for 5 days there will be the return of Paddingtons floating market…

 

Photo credit: wirewiper on VisualHunt / CC BY-NC-ND

Enjoy the sun wherever you are in the world and if it is a tad nippy then wrap warm and have a piece of meringue pie…..xx

Thank you for reading my whimsical ramblings I do hope you enjoyed and it bought back some memories… xxx

About Carol Taylor:

Enjoying life in The Land Of Smiles I am having so much fun researching, finding new, authentic recipes both Thai and International to share with you. New recipes gleaned from those who I have met on my travels or are just passing through and stopped for a while. I hope you enjoy them.

I love shopping at the local markets, finding fresh, natural ingredients, new strange fruits and vegetable ones I have never seen or cooked with. I am generally the only European person and attract much attention and I love to try what I am offered and when I smile and say Aroy or Saab as it is here in the north I am met with much smiling.

Some of my recipes may not be in line with traditional ingredients and methods of cooking but are recipes I know and have become to love and maybe if you dare to try you will too. You will always get more than just a recipe from me as I love to research and find out what other properties the ingredients I use contain to improve our health and wellbeing.

The environment is also something I am passionate about and there will be more on this on my blog this year

Exciting for me hence the title of my blog, Retired No One Told Me! I am having a wonderful ride and don’t want to get off, so if you wish to follow me on my adventures, then welcome! I hope you enjoy the ride also and if it encourages you to take a step into the unknown or untried, you know you want to…….Then, I will be happy!

More and more of my blogging friends have joined me on MeWe…A social media site which is fairly new and which promises much without the restrictions some other social media sites are choosing to impose on many of us…Join me if you will on  mewe.com/i/caroltaylor3 

Carol is a contributor to the Phuket Island Writers Anthology: https://www.amazon.com/Phuket-Island-Writers-Anthology-Stories-ebook/dp/B00RU5IYNS

Connect to Carol

Blog: https://carolcooks2.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRealCarolT
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Thank you once again for reading this post I hope you all have a creative week ahead xx