For a while now I’ve had suspicions that some of the wee folk were visiting my house to provide their special type of (generally misguided) help.
I’m not sure how I ended up with them, but research suggests I may have unintentionally uttered the secret words that allowed them to slip through to our world from their magical kingdom. I’ve spent many a sleepless night searching through my memory banks and think I’ve finally managed to pin it down to an exasperated moment when I cried
“AarghI’msosickofthismessandyoukidsfightingallthebloodytimeit’sturningmementalandI’mleavinghome”.
Be wary of uttering the above as you too might end up with these helpful little beings. Mine like to help me save electricity by regularly turning off the chest freezer. Bless them! They also have an extreme aversion to dirt on the bathroom floor and regularly tip bathwater all over it to give it a good clean. Strangely enough, this dirty floor aversion doesn’t extend to the kitchen where they like to drop all sorts of sticky goodness on the floor. I suspect they’ve got some kind of deal going with the local ant mafia.
My wee folk like to leave little notes around the house for me. Unfortunately they don’t seem to understand the concept of paper, and I haven’t been able to decipher their writing yet. I’d like to think that their scrawlings on the walls, doors and small children are motivational messages to me to help me keep going when I find motherhood particularly tough.
The wee folk are a secretive lot and are only rarely glimpsed by humans. I wanted to be one of those humans, so I headed off to my nearest spy store to gather secretive spy stuff so I could indulge in a bit of secretive spying. I can’t give you any more details because it’s all secret and stuff.
You can imagine my surprise when I got photographic evidence.
There they were, two little fairies in broad daylight where anyone could have spotted them!
Eating food from my kitchen.
Little minxes.
They vanished as soon as they realised they’d been spotted and my secret spy stuff mysteriously disappeared soon after. Occassionally I have caught a glimpse of the female fairy, but never again have I seen the male. But just in case I’ll keep the photo so that I can produce it again in, say, 17 years, 4 months, 1 week and 2 days when I have a feeling it will provide much mirth to all but one.
Hahaha. Love it, especially the expression on his face.
Yes I don’t think he was terribly impressed at having his photo taken. You can just tell that he’s thinking “What the….”
Brilliant. I think I might have fairies too.
Oh no Jenna. You have my sympathies.
Haha!! Those are some really cute fairies you have there. Those wings look awesome on the little guy, too.
(Thanks for linking up with the #findingthefunny party. Hope you come back next week!)
Yeah I think they’re pretty cute too. Thanks for stopping by and I’ll definitely be back for the next link up.
This is a great post and what a cute picture! Yes, that will be a picture to take out to show the future misses some day! Found you on Kelly and Anna’s linkup.
Hehe that photo will definitely be coming out in years to come. Thanks for popping by.
Too funny! I think your wee ones may have been helping at my house last week…
Thanks for linking up to finding the funny!
Anna
Oh no, were they? I hope they didn’t create too much mess!
Thanks for stopping by Anna
Hey Sue, I found you through Silly Mummy. And I think your fairies look gorgeous
Hi Lisa, thanks for stopping by. And yeah, I agree that my fairies are gorgeous. Do you want them?
They are just way too cute! He does not look to happy about something and she looks like she finds him funny. Sweet photo!
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Thanks Patricia.
I love the expression on that fairy’s face. These are clearly real fairies, not the idealised Victorian kind
Thanks Kate. There’s definitely nothing Victorian about these mischievous fairies.
Hee!! Your fairies are pretty cute. I might have a male one in my home – there are mysterious sticky spots appearing everywhere in my house.
Uh oh. Perhaps you’d better set up some secret spy stuff to capture proof as it’s the only way I’ve found to make them disappear.
Wow! To say I love this post is a huge understatement. Wee people in my world require regular sacrifices of chocolate brownies. Extortionists!
Mmmm chocolate brownies. Can’t really blame them for using such deliciousness as their extortion currency.
I have often felt as you, and I know I have fairies in my house. Mine like to leave snack trails, pee puddles, and wet messy messes.
It seems there is a fairy epidemic going on around the world.
Thanks for reading through so many of my posts and leaving comments.
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