Tribute to “The Very Hungry Catterpillar”

One of my favorite childhood stories was a brilliant book called “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle. Wikapadeia describes it brilliantly here :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Very_Hungry_Caterpillar and if you wish to purchase a copy go here : http://www.amazon.com/Very-Hungry-Caterpillar-Eric-Carle/dp/0399226907 . Here is my new take on that insatiably hungry caterpillar……

In the light of the moon, a window of a flat was lit brightly, inside that room was a warm snuggly bed, when all of a sudden, POP!, out of the bed came an exhausted but very awake Mummy!

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She tried  reading her favorite book – but she was still awake!

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She tried eating a late night snack

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was still awake!

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She tried deep breathing and meditation – but she was still awake!

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She tried several different bloody medicationssleepy tablets- but she was still awake!

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She tried watching the most mind distracting sleep inducing DVD she could find, one she had watched many times – but you know what she was – STILLBLOODY AWAKE!

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She tried surfing the internet – but by now she was in a very strange kind of half awake sure all this is a dream state but NOT ASLEEP

Then finally, after several hours of EBay  the still awake Mummy began to drift into a kind of bidding coma…

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and the next morning out of that coma came a much less tolerant Mummy with huge bags under her eyes

…who for some odd reason had a craving for swiss cheese, watermelon and lollypop and wished she had wings

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and that somehow by some miracle she had enough money to pay for the twelve black skirts she bid on last night…