Oh gawd the dead bee ds has been carrying around for days and thinks is his pet, is crawling with lice :-o

[FrannyandZooey]

Have I:

a) traumatised ds for life

b) infested the house / our bodies with some hideous parasite????

Both

Neither. You've created a great family story.

better than a mackerel's head.

it is in the garden "as it will be more comfortable there" and ds is allowed to "visit it"

DS: "oh poor bee, poor bee, it is dead and now it has head lice"

bees can get lice????

Oh gosh who had a mackerel's head? A friend of mine was a teacher and had to clear the classroom once when a child's "pet" (a very dead bat ) was discovered in their desk

lol. Ds is right that it is rather a sad fate!

Well they were tiny little crawly things, like mites or something

ds just made the connection with head lice and called them that

ive seen lice on a dead bee before. filthy isn't it?! lol

Oh crikey we took it to nursery yesterday as well and all the children handled it

you don't really think there's anything dodgy with it, do you?

Ah ds seems to have got over it in record time, at least

now wearing a straw hat with a big flower on and saying "I feel very important in my Easter bonnet"

this why i love your ds franny

yuk

not one for the treasure basket then

oh i see you already did that lol

Bee lice

doesn't mention if they are fatal to humans or not

i don't now why but i guessed this was your ds franny!!! rofl.
bless him.

we found a grasshopper in our house last night. how the feck did it get there??

i wasn't making fun of him btw

Could they have been bee lice?

"i wasn't making fun of him btw "

oh I wouldn't worry, I was

Ah I see you've already found bee lice info!

My brother, aged (yes) about 4.

My dad took me fishing, and we caught mackerel. DB came over to watch is fillet and clean it, and my dad held a head up, and made it's mouth move "Hello DB! How areyou"

DB now thrilled to boots with new friend, and certainly won't allow his new friend to be used as fishbait or thrown away. Dad says yes, he can keep the head until bedtime.

unfortunately he then forgot, and mum doesn't know about it, and bearing in mind we are in a tiny caravan full of fishing equipment, it's a while before anyone notices the smell. but DB still won't let anyone throw his friend, which his has barbecue wrapped in tinfoil and snuggled under his pillow, away.

So a comromise is reached. Fishhead can live in a plastic bucket under tha caravan, as long as he doesn't come inside.

To prevent my brother taking it home, my dad had to cob it over a hedge while he wasn't looking.

they wont hurt us i wouldnt have thought.

let him have a funeral for it, and make a head stone etc - we used to do that to all our findings, including my sister's ladybird which "Squashed itself" in suspicious circumstances.

Oh colditz

oh dear

Do you think it smelt as bad as the dead bat? All the children had to go out in the playground while they opened a window

Oh god I don't know...he is obsessed with burials etc already, and gets looks from my friends as he gleefully tells them "When we die we're going to go under the ground with mud on us"

Franny

Open a tin of mackerel

Wrap contents in foil

Leave on sunny windowsill

Now put under your pillow in a teeny caravan.

Yes I DOOOOO think it is as bad as a bat, worse, even!