Today, Miss M has spent much of the afternoon trying not to wake a sleeping ladybird as she passed it on the stairs.
After she mentioned it for the third time, I decided to investigate, and found this…
Yep, it’s a ladybird.
Nope, it’s not asleep…
But I didn’t have the heart to tell Miss M that the sleeping ladybird will not be waking up any time soon, so we tiptoed past it and I made a mental note to go back later and dispose of the remains before Miss E came home and pronounced it dead.
But, well, I forgot.
Every so often Miss M reminded me.
Miss M: ” Dat ladybird is still asleep Mummy.”
Miss M: “Mummy, dat gruber* will wake de ladybird up.”
Miss M: “It’s having a very long sleep isn’t it Mummy, dat ladybird?”
* gruber is Miss M for hoover, aka Vacuum cleaner, and not a noisy German lodger.
So it got to 4.30pm, Miss E’s arrival was imminent, and I finally remembered that I needed to scrape a mouldering corpse off my stairs.
I fetched my camera, because erm, ladybirds are cute, even when they’ve gone to meet the big red bug in the sky. It had nothing to do with blog fodder, honest.
Anyway, we took a couple of shots, very quietly, so as not to disturb the subject, then I scooped it up and carried it gently downstairs and to the back door where I blew it off my hand.
Me: “Oooh, look M, it flew away.”
Miss M: “Mummy, you woke it up.”
Me: “Sorry babe. I think it wanted its tea.”
Miss M: “Maybe it will come back tomorrow and have some more sleep in my house.”
Me: “Maybe.”
NB. If it does, I will run away. It would be just my luck to be haunted by a small insect for not giving it a proper burial. Tsk.
Ok, my Blog Earth Day ’small change for Thursday…big change for my Carbon Footprint.’
Today at Schmesco, I used my lovely fold away fabric reusable shopping bag for the first time.
Isn’t it gorgeous?
Ok, I know it’s not the prettiest, but I wanted one that would fold up so I could keep it in my bag, and this one is perfect. And I will no longer need to use Schmesco carrier bags if I pop in for a few bits, and as Schmesco is right next to Miss E and M’s school and nursery, that happens quite a lot.
Result.
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Sybil , Lee, and Momo this is for you.
Voila, a sausage roll.
It’s basically sausage meat wrapped in puff pastry. Ideal if you like indigestion, but a party favourite over here and Misses E and M have them occasionally.
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April 17th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
They do fold up bags in schmesco? Mine are those enormous and unfoldable hessian ones and they have a life of their own. I want a fold up one. Now. Have you noticed though, they never give you the green points – grr! or maybe that’s just me…
April 17th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
I have four fold up bags and always forget to take them with me when I go shopping! What am I like?
April 17th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
That little labybird is cute, dead or alive! I’m not at all impressed with Tesco’s choice of colour for their ‘green’ bag. Why BLACK? I don’t like it Jo. Why have they done this? Surely any colour would have been better than grim black. I’ll have to shop in Sainsbury’s now.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Our girls had a pet spider that had crawled into the hallway nightlite and gotten fried. Emma said, “Ooooo…he’s so! Cute!!” Bit disturbing, that.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Disturbing how the ladybird looks cute alive OR dead! And I always forget my “green” shopping bag… (Sigh)
April 17th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Shall I say that was an “insect aside”??
April 17th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Aw! When Ethan was two, he had a little worm he named Wormy. He thought Wormy was sleeping, too, and he decided to wake him up by stepping on him. Hard to explain to a toddler that that doesn’t wake them up so much as send them off to that little Wormy Heaven in the sky. Poor thing.
(Your carpet reminds you of innards?! That’s funny!)
April 17th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
man, that carpeting looks like the fiberglas insulation my parents had in their attic.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
I hadn’t thought about using a foldable bag I could keep in my purse. My main problem with reusable shopping bags is that I forget to take them with me. Great idea.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
in our house…the ladybug would have been alive, but after 2 hours of sugar playing with it, it would then be “sleeping”. Poor bug.
April 18th, 2008 at 2:52 am
You’re right, it’s really hard to make a ladybird look evil. I tried but failed miserably.
April 18th, 2008 at 5:08 am
Ladybugs or Ladybirds, I love them, even though they invade my house each and every winter but I don’t care that they have decided my home is the warmest place to spend their winter vacation.
Sandi
April 18th, 2008 at 5:38 am
If it’s dead, send it on over to our house. Pickle will lurve it if it is dead. Her latest thing. Dead people and most likely ladybirds too.
April 18th, 2008 at 6:31 am
What a lovely little tale! I think I would have put it outside earlier!
April 18th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Belle, I got this one at Tesco Express. It’s still quite big, but I have a fairly large bag so it’s ok. I do think the cute ladybird ones look nicer though, sighhh.
Akela, it’s easily done. My mum is amazing as she always remembers hers, but I have so much stuff n my bag already that carrier bags just get in the way. This one is all neat and tidy so I’m hoping it will work better.
Rosie, I definitely would prefer a prettier one, but this is so neat and compact I don’t mind. Blimey I sound like a right old lady don’t I?
Kim, oh that made ma laugh, hee hee. But they don’t see ‘dead’ do they?
Crazycath, it does deosn’t it/ Maybe it really was sleeping, and I just chucked it out the door where it landed on it’s head, fatally wounded. Bugger.
David, you are so good at doing that.
Avery, Miss E was similar. When she was two she trod on a snail, then said, ‘It didn’t mind.’ Snort. I hate that carpet.
Laurie, it is nasty. And the walls in my hall are yellow?? I mean, pink and yellow? I know we should decorate, but my plan is to wait till the kids are older. It does look very strange though.
Daring one, me too. I’m really going to try with this one though.
Corey, sadly, this bug was not alive at anytime during Miss M’s love for it.
Willowtree, your attempt was admirable. And it was much more scary than my attempt. I tried covering it in white and it just looked like a blob of toothpaste.
Sandi, we’ve had loads these year. I don’t mind them though. Now the spiders…
Picklesmum, if I’d known I would have sent it to you, honest, but I blew it into the flowers. If we get another I’ll post it on.
Maggie May, you are right. I should have. I meant too, but I didn’t. To be honest at first I thought she was pretending as it was so tiny. I showed Mr B this post tonight and he said, “Oh, there really was one then?”
April 18th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Thank you for the photo tutorial on sausage rolls! They do look yummy. I can’t say I blame her for wanting one.
I would think that if you wanted to make the ladybug look spooky, you would need to flip it onto it’s back. At least, it would look dead.
April 18th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Ladybird .. to me was always Lady Bug .. in any case fun post
David sent me
April 18th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
okay that is really cosmic. we both used them for the first time on the same day! well, i *bought* mine that day. i have others, but they don’t fold.
we are cosmic schmesco buddies!!! i always knew we could be. i mean i asspired to be your schmesco buddy, but i didn’t think it would happen so soon. oh my goodness, it’s all happening so quickly. . .
April 18th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
apparently i can’t spell aspired at 11:45. who knew? i kind of suspected as much. here are more words i stop being able to spell at 11:00:
discumbobulate
fregerator
certifiaible
juxtapositian
if you want more, just aks.