Bedroom Antics - not X rated!
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 9:21 am
Well, as they say in France “Parlez du diable et on voit ses cornes” (speak of the devil and he appears). Having mentioned praying mantis in the swallows thread viewtopic.php?p=340302#340302 it was almost bound to happen...
Lying on the bed last night, finishing off my chapter before tucking down, there was a plaintive “meew” from the patio. No point ignoring it, Ginge has a volume knob that goes up and up and up – and I didn't want him to wake OH. So I went and opened the patio screen door and waited for his little lordship to waltz into the bedroom. Only he didn't. He sat there, peering intently at something (or nothing?) until I started to close the screen door. Typical perverse cat behaviour.
Then he finally deigned to come in and wandered off to the kitchen so I could fetch his pre-midnight snack. (Slave? Moi????)
Once he'd finished and was back outside, I went back to my book. Except I daren't get back on the bed – there was something on my pillow. Closer inspection proved it to be a praying mantis. Quite a large praying mantis. In fact, just about the biggest I've yet seen. (Gulp) And as they are meat-eaters and I'm a scaredy cat (
), I was reluctant to pick him up in my bare hands. Instead, I tried to encourage him onto a bookmark so I could carry or guide him through the window and leave him on the windowsill.
Well, after several minutes of rushing round the bedroom, collecting him from curtains, floor, bed, me (gulp), in an irregular rotation, I gave up and fetched the insecticutor bat. Carefully refraining from touching the “zap” button, I managed to persuade the praying mantis onto the bat for long enough to get him to the window. I'd just opened the fly screen – and, yep, you guessed it, he flew/hopped off again, back into the room.
So another round of “chase the praying mantis” ensued. Finally, success! Yippee! And OH slept through all this and his only comment in the morning on seeing the insecticutor bat in the bedroom was “what did you murder last night?”
Perhaps I should have committed murder last night (the praying mantis, not OH!:lol:) – I certainly would not have indulged in all that frustrating exercise instead of relaxing prior to sleeping. And “they” say (these famous experts) that you should not indulge in exercise within about 2 hours of sleeping – yes, that's exercise with an “e”, not exercise with an “s”!!!
Lying on the bed last night, finishing off my chapter before tucking down, there was a plaintive “meew” from the patio. No point ignoring it, Ginge has a volume knob that goes up and up and up – and I didn't want him to wake OH. So I went and opened the patio screen door and waited for his little lordship to waltz into the bedroom. Only he didn't. He sat there, peering intently at something (or nothing?) until I started to close the screen door. Typical perverse cat behaviour.
Then he finally deigned to come in and wandered off to the kitchen so I could fetch his pre-midnight snack. (Slave? Moi????)
Once he'd finished and was back outside, I went back to my book. Except I daren't get back on the bed – there was something on my pillow. Closer inspection proved it to be a praying mantis. Quite a large praying mantis. In fact, just about the biggest I've yet seen. (Gulp) And as they are meat-eaters and I'm a scaredy cat (
), I was reluctant to pick him up in my bare hands. Instead, I tried to encourage him onto a bookmark so I could carry or guide him through the window and leave him on the windowsill.Well, after several minutes of rushing round the bedroom, collecting him from curtains, floor, bed, me (gulp), in an irregular rotation, I gave up and fetched the insecticutor bat. Carefully refraining from touching the “zap” button, I managed to persuade the praying mantis onto the bat for long enough to get him to the window. I'd just opened the fly screen – and, yep, you guessed it, he flew/hopped off again, back into the room.
So another round of “chase the praying mantis” ensued. Finally, success! Yippee! And OH slept through all this and his only comment in the morning on seeing the insecticutor bat in the bedroom was “what did you murder last night?”
Perhaps I should have committed murder last night (the praying mantis, not OH!:lol:) – I certainly would not have indulged in all that frustrating exercise instead of relaxing prior to sleeping. And “they” say (these famous experts) that you should not indulge in exercise within about 2 hours of sleeping – yes, that's exercise with an “e”, not exercise with an “s”!!!
