This weekend I don't have time to make soup as I'm heading away this evening and won't be home until Monday night (St Valentine's Day). I thought I would just put in a few references to bees I have come across recently. Last week I mentioned "The Whole Day Through" by Patrick Gale . I had also read "The Cat Sanctuary" which was first published in 1990. Here's the quote from "The Cat Sanctuary": "Er ... What is it?" she asked, not wanting to appear rude. "Chamomile's the main ingredient. It tastes a bit like pond water but it works straight off. You might like a little of this in it." He slid her a honeypot shaped like a beehive. [From Chapter 15] One of the positive outcomes of jetlag has been the opportunity to catch up on my reading. I had a pile of books by the bed, one of which was Johan Theorin 's "Echoes from the Dead" (first published in Swedish in 2007, I think). I discovered his novels l...