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Hello I'm Faye Fay and welcome to the English we speak and joining me is Rob.

Hello everyone.

So Rob I hear you have a new hobby.

Yes, that's right. It's very exciting. Let me show you.

Ah, bees! I don't like them.

Shut the door!

So your new hobby is beekeeping? Yes I'm a beekeeper and I love it but there is a

sting in the tail. Of course there's a sting in the tail. Bees sting and it hurts and that's why I don't like bees.

They only sting when they're angry feefay. And anyway when I said there's a sting in the tail

I wasn't referring to the bees.

I meant something unpleasant comes with something that is meant to be pleasurable.

Yes, as I said, looking after bees means you're likely to get stung.

That's true, but what I meant was beekeeping is fun, but I wasn't expecting it to cost so much money.

I had to buy all these hives and these special protective clothes.

Yes you do look silly.

So you're saying beekeeping is fun, but the unexpected cost of it is the sting in the tail?

Exactly. Let's hear some examples while I go and get some honey.

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