Thursday 29 March 2012

Ladybirds









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  1. Πολύ όμορφη φωτογραφία...... γιατί τις πασχαλίτσες τις λένε ladybirds????

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  2. Thank you Tatiana. I don't know why they are called 'ladybirds' in English - their Greek name is also very pretty: how would you translate it? 'Little Easter bugs'?

    This plant in our garden is full of them - the other day I counted thirty, and they come in the house too. They are everywhere....

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  3. Αχ τι ωραία!!! Θέλω και γω...Θυμάμαι όταν ήμουν μικρή έβλεπα συνέχεια... και κάμπιες έβλεπα... τώρα μόνο κάτι μύγες μείνανε!!!

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  4. It is because of all the chemicals in the atmosphere - as we have discussed before we are destroying our planet. I remember how many butterlies there used to be about, and now it is quite rare to see one.

    The main problem in the U.K. now is bees - now only are they dying, but I read an article in the paper today that they cannot find their way to the hive because of all the chemicals in the air.

    As for the cambies, you are right - you don't see them much in Kalamaki anymore.

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  5. Do you remember the little foreign boy, who lived in the house behind us, who put the cambies in his pocket?

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  6. I remember the incident(s) very well: I can see him standing by our fence stuffing his pockets with the caterpillars and I can also feel our horror and fascination. But I cannot remember anything else about that family, not even their nationality - were they German, French?

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    1. Very possibly. And of course, there was the French family living at Angeliki's - I remember them very well. Jean Pierre was the name of one of the boys, was it not? I remember he used to say he would marry a Chinese girl when he grew up because he looked Chinese when he was a baby. I can't remember the name of the other. We had so many escapades together....

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  7. There's enough in the garden and the house without you encouraging them to fornicate by making them internet superstars

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  8. Very naughty again, Sally.

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