Posted on 09/10/2022 2:45:26 PM PDT by Twotone
If you watch Midsomer Murders it is very familiar.
Interesting that 70+ years since this was last done, someone remembered now.
They’re somewhat expendable in hard times, otherwise drones seeve s purpose in breeding. Pretty cool ti stand in the middle of a mating swarm. You really get to know why they’re called drones.
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The Ravens of the Tower of London are a group of at least six captive ravens resident at the Tower of London. Their presence is traditionally believed to protect the Crown and the Tower; a superstition holds that "if the Tower of London ravens are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall and Britain with it.
Some historians, including the Tower's official historian, believe the "Tower's raven mythology is likely to be a Victorian flight of fantasy".
The earliest known reference to captive ravens at the Tower is an illustration from 1883. Historically, wild ravens were common throughout Britain, even in towns; the Tower was within their natural range. When they were exterminated from much of their traditional range, including London, they could only exist at the Tower in captivity and with official support.
The Tower ravens are tended to by the Ravenmaster of the Yeomen Warders. Local legend puts the origin of the captive raven population at the time of King Charles II (reigned 1660–85)
‘The Life of the Bee’, by Maurice Maeterlinck, is one of the most beautiful books I’ve read:
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Bee-Maurice-Maeterlinck/dp/0486451437
Now that’s odd
How about the Corgis?
Never more
People still talk to the bees in the U.S. Old custom.
...ahem.. This is NOT the Bee?
I lol’d at this one!
We’re going to be treated with lots of weird rituals over the next few months - read about one yesterday where Charles is to sprinkle red dirt from a silver bowl (or maybe it’s silver dirt from a red bowl) - onto his mother’s casket as it is being lowered into her grave.
Not the Babylon Bee?
Exactly
The UK can either have a Monarcy or a vibrant middle class, time to decide...
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