this year, i brought back honey from Australia, Argentina, Japan & Sweden,
and they all pale in comparison to the honey from Neil Gaiman’s hives.
YES! (pumps fist in the air. Then realises it’s nothing to do with me, and it’s all about the bees and the flowers…)
Zhangjiajie National Park Forest
Narrow sandstone pillars, some over 650 feet high, fill the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in Hunan Province, China. The park is one of several within the Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Cable cars and an incredible elevator attached to the side of a giant pillar are available to see the incredible sites. The surreal alien landscape and scenery looks like the set from the movie Avatar. This is not a coincidence.
According to park officials, photographs from Zhangjiajie inspired the floating Hallelujah Mountains seen in the film. One of the park’s quartz-sandstone pillars, the 3,540 foot Southern Sky Column (third picture), has been officially renamed “Avatar Hallelujah Mountain.”
When I was there a honey-seller showed me her jars of snow-white honey, something that crept into my Sherlock Holmes story THE CASE OF DEATH AND HONEY. A really beautiful, haunting place.
(via odditiesoflife)
Health Canada no longer recommends over-the-counter cough and cold medicines for children younger than six years, saying there is no evidence the syrups work – and the risks of overdoses and side effects are too high.
But now a new study published in Pediatrics backs up what many grandparents have long recommended: a spoonful of honey before bedtime can safely relieve coughing.
— http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/honey-can-ease-nighttime-coughing-in-young-kids-study-1.905339#ixzz22uKk7g5i