By Jiminy......

I do believe I found a cricket!

Or did he find me??

Anyway - so much for heading to bed last night once I'd finished blipping - I carried on looking and reading and oooh'ing and commenting..........and before I knew it it was past midnight!

As I (eventually!) went to get in to bed I noticed this wee fella walking up the bedroom wall (he was all of about an inch long!) Now, I wasn't afraid of him or anything, but I cerainly didn't want him roaming my bedroom as I was sleeping. What if he crawled in alongside me and I squished him?? Nothing for it but to capture the wee man and evict him to the garden.

Therupon began 45 minutes of crawling around on my knees cricket trapping! Boy, can these guys move?! I'd get him lined up with my hands about to cup around him and he'd leap w-a-y past my hands to some other place a fair way away. I did manage to get him to land on a piece of white paper though and grabbed a few shots whilst he got his breath back........then we'd start all over again! I don't know about him, but by the time I did manage to capture him I was exhausted!! He was safely evicted to the garden and I headed to bed about 1.00am :(

In other news today, the roof is now washed, blasted and undercoated ready for 2 final coats tomorrow. K is turning out to be a real find - quick worker, lovely guy to talk to and with some fairly creative ideas about what I could do with my rickety old garden shed - which he thinks is absolutely wonderful.........! But that's another story for another time.

For now, I need ice-cream and some strawberries to round the evening out :)

G'night!