The Search for the Ugly Noo-Noo

Christopher does not say "No". Englishhotpototoinyourmouth "no". He shakes his head emphatically and says softly, "noo". Noo,noo,noo. It makes me laugh every time he does it. He used to do it a lot when he was smaller. Something he shouldn't, like threaten to put his finger in the plug hole and then look at me, his head tilted down and looking up at me and then shake his head, "noo?" As in the ugly noo-noo. But he is my beatiful noo-noo.

This got me to wondering- what or who was the Ugly Noo-noo? I asked Jeeves and googled it and am no wiser. It would appear that the Ugly Noo-Noo is a play by Andrew Buckland about this

Just looking at this makes me want to scream. According to this, they are usually only 4 -5 cms. Also, they are capable of functioning for a while once decapitated and tend to jump at anything that threatens them while spraying black fecal ink. An ugly noo-noo? I think not. A-fucking-terrifying-kick off your Jimmy Choos run-to save your sweet cellulite riddled ass- don't stop to get your pets, passport, children and don't look back or you will be turned into a pillar of salt mother of a bug- might be a bit closer to the skid mark.

But this is only about 5cm. So on the same google page- I really have to ask- WTF is this?

Had a good giggle while searching for the ugly noo-noo when I came across a chat forum where Wildtuinman and Krokodile (2 adults) were discussing how scared they were of bugs and our ugly noo-noo got the following mention: "My husband calls them Jesus bugs because when you see the size of them you exclaim, 'Jesus!!!! What was that???!'"

But anyway. Enough. Wouldn't you like to be here?

My friend Karen was, in October and sent me this picture. The Pilansberg. We have such a beautiful country.

today's treasures: watching Christopher trying to share his chocolate marshmellow egg with Madiskins (our cat who was not even remotely tempted to take a nibble). Watching him trying to share his night bottle with his new fluffy toy- a black and white mungrel. A new box fish that takes all of 3 minutes in the microwave to cook and is delicious.