DO NOT DISTURB

Well-spotted and well-photographed, Ponty...
Lovely blog to make me smile...
...thank you. :o)

Cheeky house guests, thanks Ponty for telling me its proper name.......

Aww bless lets hope they survive the winter.

I hope they can sleep through all the festivities. Lol! :~))

Great it is a money plant, i've got a great big money plant in a outside garden planter it is so large and wide i cannot get it through the back door, bless those little lady birds.

Great photos.
Now how about a 'Do not disturb' sign (In ladybird language of course) !!
Thanks for sharing this with us.

& Very Pretty Ladies they r 2 Ponty :) i bet u was well surprised finding them here ?:)

They wil be nice and cosy there for the winter Ponty , you might have more than 5 in the spring :o)

Thats lovely Ponty. They only come to rest in a nice happy home, so I hope you all have a lovely Christmas together. They're wise to explore a money tree! Nice bye-bye's Ladies.

Thanks all. They'll be well taken care of. At least they will not be demanding food every five minutes like Loozie the cat!

What lovely visitors to have Ponty.

Awww...ladybird ladybird fly away home....can't remember the rest of the verse :(
Looks like you've got guests over Christmas, Ponty :))

Ladybird guests,tell me about it - they're everywhere in my sitting room and bedroom. Move a curtain further back, dust a curtain track, look in the corners near the windows, little clusters of them everywhere. My sight's now so bad that the other day I thought I was picking up a dropped currant from the floor - turned out to be a ladybird - I really must wear my glasses, lol

Have a warm sleep, ladybirds! :)

I wish ! as I dont even see them in my garden - think I saw 3 all summer.

Ahhhr, how nice Ponty.

I have heard that in China these plants are called, 'Happiness Trees'.

Money or happiness, you choose!

Gertie.

Hey, Drc, that's cos they were all in Norfolk! They had a massive invasion there when I was up there, you couldn't even walk down the street without choking

Strange that i get non though!

You probably did, just not many - have to say that a lot of the ones in norfolk appeared to be harlequins, as are quite a lot the ones in my home at present.

I have not a one here now...and did not have a lot over summer..they look very sweet there..enjoy your Christmas with them..I would be happy to have them for guests.. :)

I hope you've got a stocking to hang on the mantle for them? Lol

Bamboo, we did have hundreds, if not thousands more in the garden this Summer but as you say, they had millions in an invasion of the North Coast, about 30 miles away.
I understand the plant is also called a Jade Plant, Gertie, so that makes sense. Jade is a Chinese happiness symbol. There is surely a connection!
What do I put in the stocking Ian? :o))

Well we always got nuts, fruit and a little gift but Santa put them there so I shouldn't worry to much about the contents and concentrate on knitting the tiny stockings! Lol

In the stocking ?
..more baby money tree plants for all the baby ladybirds :o)

You could go out and try and find some aphids! but I wouldn't Lol

P'raps I'll just leave an old sock under the pot! Knitting's out!

Lol :~))

Lol :o)

Ponty..We call it a Jade Plant..my Grandmother had a huge one..it was beautiful..she kept it in a room with little light and it was always cool in there..the trunk must have been 10 inches in circumfrence. I do not know who has it now, but I am sure it is still around somewhere in the family.

With a 10 inch trunk, how much space was left in that room Cat?

LOL..it was very big..it took up a whole corner window area of the room..

I always put my Happiness Tree out in the garden in the summer, so why havn't I got any Ladybirds Ponty?

It's too cold in the garden now Gertie. They've moved into the warmth. You should have opened the cat flap. :o))

I keep meaning to ask you, how are the 'ladies' doing now? I hope they are still tucked up with all this snow around.

Three are still comfortable. The other three? They appear to have gone but it is possible that they are lower down, where I can't find them.