Lord Samper's Library

Taking a spot of annual leave is great, I should really do it more often. I’m no longer looking after my ex’s cat (both the cat and I are very pleased about that) and I’ve been spending a lot of time with my daughters; can’t ask for a lot more than that from a week off ;o) One thing I haven’t been able to do though is get much reading done. It’s the same old story (no pun intended, unless you liked it…) I’ve got a few books on the go but I haven’t been able to make much headway on any of them. We’ll see if that improves, over the rest of the week, but for now, lets take a look at the films I’ve watched instead. Bit of a mixed bag this time round but that’s the way it goes sometimes. Here goes… ‘Zombeez’ (2023) When bee hives start dying off and dead bodies start appearing in a small Florida town, the local coroner is forced to team up with the apiologist who left her at the altar years ago, to try and solve this deadly mystery. It’s well known, in these parts, that if a movie has ‘zomb...

Family attacked by Bees – Two Killed. This was the beginning, barely noticed. Only a few scientists felt the first stirrings of terror. But then the death toll began to mount – And terror erupted into national panic when great swarms of savage bees, deadly killers, blotted out the sun as they spread across America. Now, with the Empire State Building black with bees, a crack team of scientists race desperately against time to fight an enemy they only partly comprehend… I’ve got a couple of other books on the go, that should take priority, but ever since I found ‘The Swarm’ hiding in a pile of old books, I’ve been really intrigued by the title and just wanted to get into it. Of course, there’s the fact that the near universally reviled film ‘The Swarm’ was based upon this book; I’ve never seen the film (might have to do something about that now) but the prospect of seeing what the fuss was all about definitely appealed to me. Not just that, I’m really scared of bees and wasps so I t...