The dangers of trade shows
Apr. 14th, 2012 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tilly_stratfordToday I accompanied my mum to the Oslo Garden Show, the annual trade fair for things like that. I don't own a garden and furthermore I've quickly and involuntarily killed every plant I've ever owned (except Pete the Potted Plant, he's obviously impossible to kill), but I have a pet theory that spending an entire day at any kind of trade fair will make you excited about the subject, it's like everybody's enthusiasm rubs off on you.
It goes even further than that: One of the stalls that caught my eye belonged to the Norwegian Beekeepers' Association, at first because I spotted the glass box containing a honeycomb frame and a myriad of bees sitting at their table, and insects of all kinds make my skin crawl - stingy ones in particular tend to make me drop everything and just run. But in spite of all that, I consider myself a generally environmentally conscious person, and for years I've been hearing about the rapidly declining bee population worldwide, plus I admit I really do enjoy Neil Gaiman's bee blogging and...
Well now there's suddenly a bunch of brochures about beekeeping in my handbag, and I get these bizarrely wistful moments of "Well someday maybe if it's not too close to the house maybe just one little hive would be kind of cool or, ooh, I could start off with a a mason bee house or..."
That darn contagious enthusiasm.
Meanwhile I made pleased noises when mum picked out seed packets that were marked "butterfly and bee friendly", that'll have to suffice for now.
It goes even further than that: One of the stalls that caught my eye belonged to the Norwegian Beekeepers' Association, at first because I spotted the glass box containing a honeycomb frame and a myriad of bees sitting at their table, and insects of all kinds make my skin crawl - stingy ones in particular tend to make me drop everything and just run. But in spite of all that, I consider myself a generally environmentally conscious person, and for years I've been hearing about the rapidly declining bee population worldwide, plus I admit I really do enjoy Neil Gaiman's bee blogging and...
Well now there's suddenly a bunch of brochures about beekeeping in my handbag, and I get these bizarrely wistful moments of "Well someday maybe if it's not too close to the house maybe just one little hive would be kind of cool or, ooh, I could start off with a a mason bee house or..."
That darn contagious enthusiasm.
Meanwhile I made pleased noises when mum picked out seed packets that were marked "butterfly and bee friendly", that'll have to suffice for now.
