Bugger!
Those who've been paying attention will know that my mother is a bee-keeper, and I assist. Well today it turns out there's a sting in the tail of this cosy domestic apiculture: I've apparently developed an allergy to bees. Being stung in the head really goddamn sucks even without a body-wide plague of itchery and nastiness. I guess I have to start being scared of bees now :-(