A Spoonful of Honey

A thought, as does happen. Looking at another part of the food chain and its byproduct, which is very beneficial to us. Like cows with their milk, chickens with their eggs, we have bees and their honey.

And it seems that bees are also on the hit list of industry and like the other animals, they are utilised and exploited. But the thought that started this one was the ‘fact’ about honey being potentially bad for small infants and shouldn’t be given to babies under 12 months. I knew this, but didn’t know why, so looked it up because of a comment about them being given lots of other toxic components by that age, but not honey.

So, I wondered if honey might actually have something in it that protects the immune system against certain toxins. And would it help to clean and build a healthy system? Strangely enough, once I mentioned this on a comment online, I got two replies from seemingly bots, trying to take the piss. One saying the extra special ingredients was C Botulinum. Weird, I thought that you couldn’t get a serious bacterial infection from something that is antibacterial. And it turns out they don’t quite know why babies catch that, but they think it’s honey. Even though the condition is considered extremely rare (although that word doesn’t mean what it used to either), it seems mad they decided it was honey. Especially when we now see the harmful practices and substances being dished out to babies, children, and adults.

As honey isn’t always even honey these days, I can see why that might cause caution as it’s instead just sugar and cornsyrup, so it’s not good for kids. But there is something about it that makes it special, same with the bees and all the other creatures doing what they are meant to. Existing, creating, and providing, and we as humans benefit from that if we can understand and appreciate it.

Squirrels, these are rewilding specialists, in my opinion, after reading the statistic that 80% (ish) of all the nuts they bury for later, they never find again. So, I wondered if they even meant to find them. Maybe they are making sure new trees get maximum distribution. As an extra point, there has been discussions about sterilising squirrels as they think they are a pest.

Birds – already being targeted and mentioned in Playing Chicken and with chickens being domesticated, bear the brunt of many changes first. But birds generally are also rewilders of seeds and plants. They’re pest control as well.

Nature has a never-ending and huge network of benefits to know about, and while we ourselves aren’t too bad at Filtering, we are under pressure. Our systems can only deal with so many disruptions and toxins, as with the environment. And just like if the human body gets attacked and will react to something in survival mode, I get the feeling nature has that capacity too…

(c) K Wicks

Sunny, Sort Of

There is much talk now of how there appears to have been A Change in the Weather. And I have already written a couple of other pieces on The Weather, and It’s A Cover Up, speculating on what might be going on and what people think and are saying. Farmers now taking notice of the continued awful conditions, as that is where we think the attention of this weather was meant to lie. To destroy crops and stability, leading neatly into the food scares and new products they would like everyone to now be focused on buying and consuming.

But the sun does seem to be elusive of late, sitting behind a hazy veil and obscured by what we are told are just normal clouds and vapours from planes, doing normal things. Despite having plane travel for quite some time, there are many who have been looking up and taking notice of the skies for decades, and some say it’s weird, others do not.

The photos in the pictures are all of the last week, where I have tried to get a direct photo of the sun, and it’s not easy with reflections and glare, and of course, the clouds. The murky grey has been like a blanket for a while now, with a few breaks of blue but not what we are used to. Although, we are very familiar with choppy and changeable weather in the UK, other European countries have also been noticing a similar pattern and crappy weather, so are we all seeing something that isn’t really there? Because the plants are also showing signs of weather fatigue, growing slowly and late, trying to survive the soggy, cold and windy days.

So, it seems that maybe the question isn’t are we seeing it, it’s more like what are we seeing? Have there been changes or distortions to what we see as the sun? Are the clouds thicker and straighter than we remember? Or is it normal changes that are advantageous for some people to wield as tool of manipulation, so they can then take ‘credit’ for them by way of people assuming or deciding in their own minds. Laying the foundations as had been done for many other things, for confusion, discord, division and squabble amongst ‘the people’ trying to work out who, what, why and when. But does that mean we are chasing shadows and being led down a merry path, or are we there because there is a trail to follow, like the breadcrumbs in the forest, trying to find your way out…

(c) K Wicks