Awake and up all night

thanks uki. yes i get bad days i suffer with bad anxiety and panic attacks. i am lucky got a good family and found this forum.

Ooh you've just reminded me of a time as a student teacher when a primary school class were doing mini beasts and their usual teacher asked them  to find some and bring them in to school.

For the uninitiated, they are little things that might live under pebbles and leaves in your garden. Best I could find were some tiny white slugs which I carefully collected with a few of their home comforts and took in early next morning ... only to find the usual teacher distraught... someone had brought some snails in the day before ... in a little square see-through plastic box. I suppose meant for a little goldfish. The open top had been covered with a sheet of sugar paper.

Now who would have thought that snails are designed to munch stuff? Stuff like leaves, some quite tough leaves? Umm so yeah, overnight ...

The Great Escape ... they had laughed at the paper lid and set off all over the classroom sampling all the other flavours of paper on offer ... like the kids' work books, posters, reading books and were currently Missing In Action.

Cheers

Oh by the way, my mini slugs were fab, demonstrating their breathing hole etc before being returned to do what slugs do

Shimmer, I loved reading your tales of slugs and paper! I'll bet you were the most popular teacher on the block - not - but the kids must have loved you. I know from experience that kids gravitate towards fun loving adults whom don't conform to the norm. I worked in a school for eons and my little gang, behaviourally challenged, used to have a lot of fun listening to my past adventures. Ahem. We did fit in some valuable learning time, of course.

You reminded me of a time when my cousin and me decided to go fishing at a nearby dam, equipped with those square contraptions with orange twine and a tupperware tub of maggots.

The fishing trip was a disaster, as we caught nothing and didn't have a clue how to use the contraptions sensibly. Anyway, we stored our gear, and the maggot box, on a shelf in her mam's outhouse that had a lot of windows - and it was high summer.

Later on, during that long, hot summer, the outhouse became filled to the rafters with a healthy swarm of bluebottles that decided to venture into the house proper. In the ensuing chaos my cousin got leathered by her mam and I was threatened with the same, but managed to run off home while she was still occupied with ragging said cousin around. With hindsight, I don't think we snapped the tupperware lid on properly.

Keep rocking your BBs, Shimmer xxx

Ooh another memory ... worked at a refuge for women and children and leaving the building one day I asked if everyone else could here that! What? ssshhh! ... Oh that! We looked around.

There was just two bins. This is the days before wheely bins. Remember little round bins with rubber or metal lids? Well there was one of those and it's very big sister ... again before the profusion of skips, a big cylindrical effort. Schools had them too.

The noise was a very definite drone and before I could stop her, one of my staff shot over to the little bin and yanked the lid off ... not sure if she thought a Highland piper was trapped in there!

err ... yeah! Seems the big bin was being emptied regularly but the little one ... umm instead, had been the birthing ground for a truly enormous amount of truly enormous flies that hither too had not had more than an eyelash of space to do what flies do!!!

Cheers

 Love it! I think this crazy heatwave has stirred memories of ones past and all the little critters that came out to play.

Right now I've got a junior moth fluttering about - he keeps coming near my face! As long as it's not a wasp I'm not bothered.

Night night sweetie, have a good sleep when you're ready xxx

Lol i like plants they dont like me hehe 

There’s not many things that make me want to heave and I’ve dealt with a lot of nasty smelly stuff in my time working for the nhs but maggots really do it I don’t know what it is about them. I was putting stuff into our food waste one day and saw what I thought was rice until it started to move about

Morning Linda 

I shouldn't have laughed but I did at your rice remark! Aye, they're manky little sods for sure and make me shudder too.

Well after starting the day on such a pleasant subject  I hope you manage to cope with another day of searing heat, my lovely. I'm dreading it but will attempt to bravely march on to pastures thundery and soaking wet! I wish.

Hugs and love sweetie xxx

Morning all

I hope you all managed a good sleep, on top of normal sleep issues this heat is certainly not helping.  I was up sometime after 2am hanging my head out of the bedroom window to get some fresh air , Alan noticed me and did the same at the other window .  We must have looked a right pair.

Nanny & Granddad duties are finished now as Mum doesn't work Thursday & Friday.

I hope you all manage to stay cool today.

H 

Morning Helen  

I hope your neighbours didn't see the pair of you hanging out of the windows - they might have thought you'd both agreed on a pact to escape the heat!

Well we've got to go shopping this morning, and I would normally make OH stay home when it's like this, but he wants to come with me. I know why as his bookies antenna is twitching again. No doubt that'll mean another coupon bombed later on this evening and yet another in the bin, but if it keeps him happy, so be it. I think he should follow yours and Alan's example (not quite) and just chuck his money out of the window as it would save traipsing about.

Enjoy your day hon, and you might get lucky with another storm xxx