Mind Your Own Beeswax by Eunice Negron Four honeybees are determined to protect the honey from a bear with a wife and family to support. First, there is Joey Bee, who has the biggest eyes of all four. His job is to guard the honey. Second, Emily Bee, who is the smartest, reads a different book every day. Third is Josyln Bee, who likes to gossip and create chaos, and fourth, Pretty Bee who is the prettiest but also lazy. Can Joey Bee, Emily Bee, Josyln Bee and Pretty Bee make peace with this beast and his family? Let's all find out in Mind Your Own Beeswax.

Things are going well for beekeeper Story Fischer, whose hands are full with a successful local market, her Queen Bee Honey business, and a new boyfriend. But when she finds the dead body of local woman with a checkered past right near her hive, she's in a sticky situation indeed.

A time poor, middle-aged woman becomes a newbee beekeeper ?Together with running a business, raising two teenage kids and training a husband, caring for a recalcitrant dog and a flock of feathered friends on a suburban block in Melbourne, what could possibly go wrong? Take time out from your own hectic life, to have a laugh about someone else's. Become immersed in the amazing world of bees, whilst at the same time following the journey as my garden evolves into a bee friendly paradise. Along the way I reflect on life, and in particular thelessons my grandmother and my children have taught me. My memoir will make you laugh, and probably make you cry too. So grab a coffee (or something stronger), waggle dance your butt to the couch, curl up in front of the fire, and for just a little while be transported into another world - mine.Beautiful colour photography and original watercolours throughout.

Can it really be true that 'golf' stands for 'Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden'? Or that 'rule of thumb' comes from an archaic legal principle that a man may chastise his wife, but only with a rod no thicker than his thumb? These and hundreds of other stories are commonly told and retold whenever people meet. They grow up in part because expressions are often genuinely mysterious. Why, for example, are satisfying meals 'square' rather than any other shape? And how did anyone ever come up with the idea that if you're competent at something you can 'cut the mustard'? Michael Quinion here retells many of the more bizarre tales, and explains their real origins where they're known. This is a fascinating treasure-trove of fiction and fact for anyone interested in language.

Idioms are expressions that cannot be understood from their individual words alone, and the English language is full of them—and so is this dictionary: 4,800+ English idioms and phrases with example sentences included for you so as to understand them all. This is the essential idioms dictionary if you want to talk like a native speaker—or just find out more about the colorful phrases you hear and say every day.

Notebook. 120 blank lined pages. Great journal for entomologists, bee lovers and beeswax craft candle makers.

Literally Speaking and Literally Speaking Too are books which consist of a total of 200 artistic depictions of clichés (expressions we've used so much that we take the meaning for granted), idioms (vernacular particular to a geographical region), plays on homophones (using identically-sounding words for their alternate meanings), and/or use of terms ironically (to express something other than the literal meaning). The website address is at least a quadruple pun (www.GetLiterallySpeaking.org): you get it (gain control of the book by picking it up), you get it (you understand it!), you get it (you buy it) and you get literally speaking (as in, you start doing it!). The website is designed for an ongoing exploration of language and a really good time.