I'm sitting beneath an umbrella outside a cafe in a small town in Germany, luxuriating in that particular joy of being warm outside while rain pours down. And beneath the umbrella with me are about 7 wasps, sharing shelter from the rain & hunting around for sugar.
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I'm enjoying the company of the wasps & marvelling that I can do so! Not long ago I was terrified of wasps. If there was a wasp on the upper floor of the bus, I'd have to go downstairs. But on holidays this year, I lost a lot of my fear.
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@martinpi were happily & foolishly braving a hike to visit 5 different chapels near Provesende in Portugal... in 36°+ midday shadeless sunshine. We ran past a house with a crazed Rottweiler, we snuck through a raspberry farm, we drank all our water.1 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
The map of the hike showed a fountain at the next chapel we'd get to - chapel #3, "Chapel of the Holy Fountain." So we get to the chapel... and there's no fountain. We're slightly anxious (it is damn hot & we are far from home). But! After a bit of hunting, we find it. Hurrah...
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... but there's a twist! The delightful little fountain is down in a hollow in the ground. & surrounding it drone a lot of wasps. A LOT. Now, I'm no wasp-counting expert, but say >50. So the precious water is right there. You can imagine how tempting it was to a parched throat.
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There was only one thing to be done. To enter the most zen state possible and GLIDE to the fountain. To hunker down with the wasps as if I were ONE OF THEM. To send psychic waves of friendly energy to the masses in my hair, on my arms, circling my face. And it worked!
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The most delicious, cold and holy water you can imagine. Two large bottles thereof. & not a single sting! & I no longer have that reflexive INNER (& SOMETIMES OUTER!) SCREAM when I see a wasp near me. Here I am now, chilling with my wasp friends, pleased & proud






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