With the government asking people to only go out for one walk a day we’re trying to make our excursions around the block a little bit more fun than the “let’s just do this as quick as possible” approach which has been the norm after months of rain.
Yesterday, cold but sunny, we headed out with snacks, pencil and paper for a family bug hunt. Bean had already decided he was going to be a baby woodlouse for the day (after spending a large chunk of his third year declaring “I’m a chicken” we now get a new announcement each morning. Sometimes he’s a baby hedgehog, baby wombat or baby chameleon. Or maybe a monkey, a bulldog or a frog. It’s all very random.) For Saturday, he was a woodlouse and we headed out in search of his friends.
Thankfully the woods near us are damp, cold and have plenty of large branches hiding from hundreds of woodlouse under them. As I added to the tally on the sheet Bean would stand over the log, one hand on hip the other pointing at each woodlouse individually as he bellowed “get that one down mummy, get that one down”.
As well as many a woodlouse we spotted millipedes, centipedes, slugs, snails, bees and even the occasional John Beetle!
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