I was just completing a long email to my friend and publisher when the lights went out. Cable theft, power shedding, faulty equipment, or leprechauns – who knows? Anyway, undaunted, I decided to put together some booklets I have printed, using the lantern I got for Christmas for light.
It wasn’t enough light.
When the lights came on a few minutes ago, I found that I had reversed a page in each. The glue is fast-acting. Oh, b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bother!
Then, wandering out to the hallway, I saw a particularly large flying cockroach (he had a thumb-sized body) waving his feelers at me. I dived back for a flip-flop while he pretended very hard not to be there. Freeze or dash are cockroach tactics.
Quickly I returned and splatted him with energy and venom. It was a messy death, Goo was all over the carpet.
Sighing, I went for a paper towel to clean up and dispose of the remains. As I reached down with it, the very squashed cockroach suddenly went into a burst of activity and zoomed off.
Zombie!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
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The horror – Natal ‘roaches are legendary
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You had quite a day! I think you may have outlined some of the signs of the Apocalypse. It started with the plague of the dreaded power outage and went all the way through zombie cockroaches. I do hope life has improved!
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A flying roach?? That’s already a mutant in my books!
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All these big roaches fly. They prefer to scuttle, but they arrive by air. Quite efficient flyers, too!
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F-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-flying cockroaches? And they return from the dead?
*shudder*
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Isn’t that a delightful concept alone late at night?
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eeeek zombies!
I’m battling the parktown prawn invasion. I don’t know why they always like being inside my home
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Those creatures are a good deal bigger than our roaches, I think. I would also prefer not to have them as guests.
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I had forgotten about Durbs and the nasties. Roaches, scorpions, snakes. At least you don’t have Parkhurst Prawns.
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Don’t forget our spiders – the nastiest of the lot. Also in the puddle we have sharks and bluebottles and jellyfish.
Parktown! 🙂 No, our crickets are normal-sized.
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🙂
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I was more inclined to 😦
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Eeek, I would’ve got such a fright!
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I wasn’t exactly calm about it!
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They are the perfect being – almost undestructable.!!
Chrome is telling me that the last word is spelled incorrectly – but I don’t think it is. Is it?
As for the lights going down – this is South Africa. The rest of Africa is probably sitting with the power WE pay for…
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That one certainly seemed it!
Chrome is right. It is one of the ‘ible’ words.
Plus the fact they rabbit on about increasing the rates of those who CAN pay so that they can supply those who can’t or won’t.
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Thanks Col 😉
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Indestructible… 😛
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Ja ja toe nou!!
I finished school longer ago than you have actually lived so I don’t feel too bad 😉
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Anyway, the ‘able’ ‘ible’ words have no logic to them. One either learns them or looks them up.
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I awreddy sed that!
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You didn’t mention the in- and un-, only the -ible and -able 😛
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Oh … right!
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And so the student surpasses the teacher 😉
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You should have used that stuff that “kills them dead”.
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Against our religion!
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Hahaha! There used to be a commercial that said that a cockroach doesn’t need its head to stay alive for a while…… eeeeuuwww!
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Well, this one didn’t seem to need quite a considerable volume of his internal organs!
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Hahahaha! Oh my god. I just spat out my coffee!
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That reminds me of finding something even worse than a cockroach in my mouthful of morning coffee at work once. It was HALF a cockroach.
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Uuuuuuuuuuuuuggggggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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That is more or less my comment at the time …
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You live in a wild part of the world!
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That it certainly is!
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Seldom get those zombies here.
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I’m sure you have interesting alternatives.
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Yukky-boos!! I’m very sure you didn’t say, “b-b-b-b-b- bother.” 😀
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Kind-of something to that effect! 🙂
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Ooh . . . a zombie cockroach! 😯
Bummer about the booklets.
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Scary, innit?
I sort-of repaired them, and hope nobody will notice …
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