What constitutes snail's pace?

I'll be surprised if you haven't been wondering whether I had given up blogging? I know that I have been wondering if I had given up blogging! 

I guess I haven't given up blogging, despite us both wondering if I'd given up blogging. After all, surely, if I had given up blogging, I wouldn't be here now writing this pithy introduction to what appears to be the kernel of another blog update. It therefore makes complete sense to me, even if it doesn't to you, that I have, at least for the time being, not given up blogging.

And so, as I haven't given up blogging, at least for the time being, I'd better find a way of making at start on another 'not given up blogging' update! 

Ah yes! I know - Twinkie and Sam, the Metallic Leaf Beetles, were having a game of leapfrog, when Sam, quite accidentally, failed to jump high enough to leap right over Twinkie...

Sam, being the gentleman that he is, apologised profusely. But Twinkie, being the liberal minded, sweet lady that she is, told him that apologies weren't necessary.

 

She only wished that he'd removed the gun from his holster that he'd fastened to his belt when they were playing cowboys and Indians earlier - she was sure she could feel it digging into her!

Meanwhile, Will Carling, the famous Harlequin, was bulking-up on crispy hash browns...

Probably not!

As Jermaine Jackson once said (well, sung actually) Let's Get Serious...

Here's a Green Shield stamp...

Oooops! I meant Green Shield Bug...

And here is the very rare 'Green Shield Stamp Bug!

How dare you !  Of course it's a real bug!

I hope this isn't all too exciting for you, it moves along at breakneck speed doesn't it; let's slow things down to a snail's pace shall we...

Just what is a snail's pace anyway? Well, doctor Google says: Snails move at a pace of 0.029 miles per hour, or 153 ft per hour. If we convert that to human speed, that's the equivalent of walking about 2 miles per hour. Okay, so I need to speed up some then! I walk so slowly that my shadow often overtakes me. 

I wonder if anyone would mind if I slipped in a couple of spider photos here?

Too bad, they're coming anyway...

I think this first tiny spider is 'Araniella' species. There is a really rare one which is found at a few sites in my part of the world, which does look very similar to this one, but I doubt that's what I have found. 

The second one (below) may well be 'Metellina' species. Of course, it may not! If that's the case, then it probably isn't! 

What's next then?

I dunno, you're writing this JJ...you tell me?

Okay, well, the logical thing to do after sharing these scary (not) spider pics, would be to share something that could be considered the antithesis of these....scary (not) spider pics? 

I'm all for convention, (I'm not actually, but for the sake of continuity, we'll pretend that I am) let's do that...

'Lacewing after rain' is what I am calling this image.

I called it lacewing after rain, because it's a photograph of a lacewing that I took, after rain! Cunning eh? There are no flies (or lacewings) on me!

Yes my friend. What follows I can say with absolute certainty, you will never have witnessed before. Oh you may have seen more than your share of oddities over the years, but c'mon...have you EVER seen a weevil that laughed so much it fell over? Be honest...

Thought not. Another first for JJ's blog.

Here's a more sensible photo that I took of another nut weevil...

I think it's probably time for me to rest my brain again now. It really isn't used to all this activity. I'll leave you with a photograph of what I thought when I was taking the shot, was a midge, or mosquito, but now think is a species of crane fly...