A repost of a picture
Of impact quite immense –
In fact, it is a stricture
On avoiding future … tense!
When living with such creatures
Make sure that they are gone
From inside footwear’s features
Before you put them on!
For if you should forget-oh
To check your boot for sting,
Then in a high falsetto
You are quite sure to sing.
© Colonialist March 2013 (WordPress)
I am still battling for a decent connection, and have failed to load any new pictures – thus the above repost to go with my rhyme is in place of a portrait of our latest scorpion visitor. Pity. The new one, with shoes (not wearing them but in amongst ours), had a particularly tense and future-imperfect expression. They do so love lurking in a boot, and then taking painful exception to the foot that tries to share it.
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Ouch! and shudder……eeek!
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Yeach….now that’s a nasty looking beastie. Definitely wouldn’t want that nesting in my shoe
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Not unless you want to put your best foot backward! 🙂
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Horrible creatures scorpions. Hope your computer woes are soon a thing of the past!
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One word: YIKES!
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Goodness! Your scorps make ours look tepid. That’s one mean lookin’ bug.
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Scorpions in shoes. Ouch, Col!
Apologies for my on-and-off visiting style; it should improve from now on. Life is trying to reclaim me from cyberspace. Happens to the best of us….
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Scary, Col!! There seems to be a lot of them in KwaZulu-Natal! I don’t think I have ever seen one in Cape Town? I wonder whether they live here as well?
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That’s one ugly scorpion! And a lot larger than the one the maid found under my roommates bed.
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He looks so deadly!
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Looks are quite accurate, in this case!
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I would not want to meet one in my shoe, that is for sure!
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I really do not think I can put ‘like’ on this blog, it may be misunderstood
🙂
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I seriously doubt that any misunderstanding can arise in this case!
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Had one of these sting me behind the ear when on the Rhodesian border… hell it hurts I could not touch my face for hours without it burning… thought I was gonna die…
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The very thought of it makes me shudder!
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Luckily, the only thing I’ve ever had hiding in a shoe was a parktown prawn 😉
And not even in my own shoe – think if one of those beauties were to hide, I’d be much less calm about it!!
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An experienced camper tips out shoes or boots without even thinking about it before putting them on. Even one of those crickets is not something one wants to share any clothing with!
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Oh what a horrid sight to see before my breakfast. Maybe this is why I always wear open-toed shoes here. 😀 Hope your internet woes are soon solved. Are you with mweb? I read that they are being a pain at the moment. 😦
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Mweb are indeed guilty for my woes. I have very limited access at the moment.
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Condolences, Col. 😦
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Love the rhyme – the stinger not so much (though some nice detail in the pic). Luckily I only have to check for rain spiders 🙂
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Where there are rain spiders, there is always the possibility of other unpleasant crawlies!
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Those goggas I really don’t want to run into!
Connection has been erratic for two days now and browsing has not been much fun.
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Ouch! Double ouch! You are sure in a challenging state at present.
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Argh! Again, just like my reaction the last time I saw that photo. Had one in my hiking boot at my farm. Had the heeby geebies for days thereafter.
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. . . looks cute . . .
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Now, how to say
how to comprehend a post like this
’cause in reality it is hooray,
what a celebration day,
the head is loony with the Sharks a croony
and way down south
we Stormers live with big mouth,
celebrating we are
the victories over the enemy from south east and far
hope your computer will soon find a tutor
and back with us you are.
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Both Sharks and Stormers did have fun,
And showed how Rugby should be done;
Computer, though, won’t keep the ball
And tries will hardly come at all!
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