What do you use it for?

I think most people know that honey bees make things that taste nice and/or are good for you.
The honey tastes great on its own and it can be added to a range of different things not least the award winning honey fudge and honeycomb available at a North Bedfordshire Honey outlet near you.
The wax they make is used to make candles and furniture polish [available at a North.......].
Honey also has medicinal properties, particularly for hay fever, and propolis makes a tincture or cream [available at a N ....] that mas many beneficial properties.

However from time to time I find people use bee products for unusual things.
I did a market at Willington and met a giant of a man, obviously military, who had to stoop when he came into the hall. He sported a very fine goatee beard and we had a general chat about bees. He was very interested in the furniture polish [available at a ......] and finally bought a pot. A voice from the clouds informed he he intended using it on his beard as it was perfect for keeping it in shape and it smelt nice.

At a market at the Forest Centre once there was a caravanning rally next to the market and a caravanner who came to the stall was delighted to see I sold bees wax blocks [available at ......].
Apparently the awning on his caravan was very stiff and he wanted the wax to lubricate the winding mechanism.

However the award for The Most Unexpected Use of a Honey Bee Product goes to someone who I first met at a small village market some months ago. It turned out he bred competition show rabbits and had been told by a very experienced successful breeder to use some pure bees wax polish on the rabbits fur that apparently make their coats very shiny and glossy and he bought a pot [av... oh, you know].
I met him again last week and he very proudly informed me that he had used my polish on his Black and Tan rabbits he entered in a national competition.

Not only did they win the Best in Breed competition but they were then entered in the Best In Show competition which they won.

So if there any bearded caravanning rabbit breeders out there my next market is at the Forest Centre on the 15th November.

I had thought of asking if you had any unusual uses for honey bee products but on second thoughts it's probably not a good idea.