September 29, 2011
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What The Dickens.
I was going to post somekind of self absorbed moan about my life, but you know what? I want to give people a reason to be a little happier so I hope you’ll enjoy the true life story of Dickens The Cockroach
One day many years ago we (me my brother and folks) were sitting down to breakfast and we opened a small box of Bananas, within was much as you might expect…a bunch of bananas, but hidden at the bottom of the box was also a pretty decent sized Cockroach.
This Cockroach was pretty slow and clearly not enjoying his new climate, so we did what we could to furnish him with a home (a large plastic screw top jar half filled with soil) and popped him on the window sill.
At this point we’d not thought of a name for our new found pet, and I remember we were all sitting around trying to think up a name while i was reading a Beano comic and kind of out of the blue i suggested the name Dickens, which for want of something better we all agreed to.
Although i don’t exactly recall how long we had Dickens, it was certainly long enough for him to dig many tunnels in his small patch of ground, and as far as we could tell he ate the globs of mashed Banana we left for him.
For the most part though we rarely if ever saw Dickens once he was in his jar, and even after we decided he must have past away hidden somewhere under the ground we never confirmed it for sure.
It was a rare and unique event the life of Dickens the Cockroach, never again did we find something living in our fruit (to our knowledge anyway) and when you think of the journey that little Cockroach had been on to get from his home all the way out to the west coast of Scotland it’s quite remarkable really.
So I always fondly remember Dickens the great traveling Cockroach.
(as you may or may not be able to guess, i’ve had a couple glasses of wine tonight, so forgive any extra oddness to this post ;P )
Comments (11)
You should go for another glass or two more wain… just to completed the oddness.
@RestlessButterfly - Hahaha
no i’m actually in bed at the moment, posting on my 3DS….And i’m no where near decadent enough to be drinking wine in bed ;P
@BFB1131 - Why not… wooing, winning yourself with wain and then off to dreamland peacefully. Wake up next morning with a huge headache… hehehe
I enjoy the extra oddness
it was a really nice heart warming story. Cheers to Dickens! I wish I had a glass of wine or a bottle *sigh*
I will think of this story the next time I see a cockroach… which thankfully is a very very rare occasion! haha.
A bottle or two?
You made a creature happy and you saved it’s life. Did you know that cockroaches like wine. They walk in bottles of wine that are laying on their sides under the sink and drink what’s left in these bottles. They die drunk inside the bottle. At least that is what i saw. These cockroaches were at least one inch and a half long. You must be wondering how i live… lol
@RestlessButterfly - Haha that dose sound fun…for the most part. But i’m good at being boringly sensible
@CorvyusMorte - :) glad you liked it, and Awww
turn your desire for wine into beautiful words 
and have a ))Hug(( instead
@Cestovatelka - Lol yea, they’re nice little things…in moderation :S
@MysticRythms - Just a third of a bottle actually
@locomotiv - Hahaha yea you could jump to the wrong conclusion with a story like that
We never tried giving him Wine lol but should we ever find another Banana Cockroach i’ll bear it in mind.
@BFB1131 - Sensible… arghhhhh!
@RestlessButterfly - Yep sorry
i’m always the one who says no more. 
@BFB1131 - Well, being sensible is also being reliable, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with being reliable.