We’ve overdue a catch up with Zac and Martha, and they suggest the Bee and Pollination festival (of course they do, Zac being a keen amateur beekeeper) up at the UoB Botanical Gardens, an institution I never knew existed and I studied there for four years. Wild. I pick up some locally made honeycomb, marvel at a beeswax Millenium Falcon model, go for a tour of the gardens in the absolutely tipping it down rain, and end up slightly banjaxed into a talk about the impending dangers of the invasion of the Asian hornet. Which does, to be fair, sound terrifying! And the woman who sounded awfully like Pam Ayres doing free verse certainly sounded compelling. A cheeky bit of cake from the Chandos Deli-supplied tea room never hurt either.