I'm not sure this counts, Winged beasts
I don't like things flying about me. Big houseflies, craneflies, anything with a sting and black and yellow stripes. Wasps are fucking evil bastards. Anything that buzzes truth be told. The buzzing noise gets in my head and even when the insect has pissed off again, I can still hear it.

If a bee is nearby, I don't go into a quivering screaming wreck like Mrs SLVA, flailing her arms and running away. But all the same, I'm not comfortable. I was stung once when I was 16. I was cycling along on a hot day and one flew into my mouth and stung the inside of my bottom lip before I spat it out. That fucking smarted I can tell you.

However, when I've been sitting in the garden over the last few days, a smallish bumble-bee keeps lands on the arm of the garden chair. At first I recoiled and stood up, but I've become used to it. It will land there and do what I assume is some sort of grooming process. Of course, it might not be the same bee each time, but I'm fairly certain it is. I've called it Wether (as in Wether-Bee).

Now, whenever I go sit in the garden, I'll get a bit of honey on my finger and dab it on the chair arm for it and it laps it up with its tiny bee-tongue. It is the most absurd thing. I want to get it to eat from the end of my finger but I still don't have the bollocks for that yet because if it flies up and about my head I'll get the heeby-jeebies all the same.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 12:06, 8 replies)

Careful
once these urban bees get too tame they'll come in your windows and eat your face at night
(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 13:20, closed)

pffft

( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 13:23, closed)

cut it in half and rename it Eric.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 13:29, closed)

How did you know my name's Eric?

( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:10, closed)

I guessed!
Singing, la-de-da, la-de-de, Eric the half-a-bee!
(SatchmoR No, mummy, don't put knitting needles in my ears!, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:11, closed)

Semi-carnally?
Oh, Cyril Connolly.
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 14:28, closed)

Oh beehive

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 15:51, closed)

You
are just a seething mass of neuroses and shite.

Sympathy click.
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Wed 7 Jul 2010, 23:52, closed)