worms!

melbishop
melbishop Member Posts: 17
edited 16. Nov 2010, 16:31 in Community Chit-chat archive
hi all, have only posted on the "say hello" bit before, was feeling brave so thought I'd come here and tell you something!!!! I have just taken delivery of a worm farm, including worms. I reckon I may be the only person very excited about this! It's all set up and I am NOT going to try and name every worm individually. Haven't had much to feel excited about recently so this is great. And I'm not insane before you ask :lol: Hope everyones feeling ok xx
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  • skezier
    skezier Member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Mel,

    Worms are faceting so I understand your excitement! Let us know cus when I was a kid we made one with a fish tank some sol and a bit of sand... they made the most intricate tunnels and patterns and after a bit we let them go again... I wonder what they thought or even if they do?

    Go on name each one :lol::lol: Nice to meet you by the way. Cris x
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    How brilliant I love the unusual, like Cris we did the same when we were kids in an old glass bowl with makeshift lid.
    My mum found it in my bedroom and made me get rid.
    Good Luck and have fun
    Barbara xx
    Love
    Barbara
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    They are intriguing creatures melbishop, and I hope your wormery gives you great pleasure. One of my favourite books is 'The Little Worm Book' by the Ahlbergs - it's supposedly for children but it makes me grin! DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • bertyboy
    bertyboy Member Posts: 1,860
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    hello and welcome from me so glad about your excitement but i dont do wiggly things they give me the heebeee geeeebeees ,now a snake is a different issue same shape but bigger :lol:
    I know i am a lady ,all life is a journey xx MAY xx
  • mellman01
    mellman01 Member Posts: 5,306
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    HiLynn thanks muchly!. Oh do you know that the wormsaround the Chernobyl reactor site are bigger than thoes that aren't, how strange is that!?, they are aslo easier to see as they glow a light blue colour but on the down side they have razor sharp teeth!!? :shock:
  • julie47
    julie47 Member Posts: 6,041
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi melbishop
    welcome to the forum

    I don't know anything about worm farms and to be honest I don't like them. Although if I saw one on garden path I would get my grabber to put it on the soil so it wouldn't frazzle in he sun or get eaten by a bird.

    Good luck with it.
    Do you have to feed em? and on what?

    Juliepf x
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    collywobble wrote:
    Hi Mel

    Dare I ask...how will they multiply? :oops: :oops:

    Good to see you Mel,
    take care.
    Lynn x

    Lynn, worms are hermaphrodites so they sort themselves out - if you see what I mean :wink:

    Hi Mell - good to meet you. :D
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • annie_mial
    annie_mial Member Posts: 5,614
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Mel, Linda and welcome to Mel.

    The most uninteresting fact of the day - snails are hermaphrodites, too.

    Annie
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    annie_mial wrote:
    Hi Mel, Linda and welcome to Mel.

    The most uninteresting fact of the day - snails are hermaphrodites, too.

    Annie

    Hi Annie,

    Did you fancy your biology teacher too then? :wink:
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    you lot are so funny how many worms or did you not count them either ?????
    val
  • annie_mial
    annie_mial Member Posts: 5,614
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    lindalegs wrote:
    annie_mial wrote:
    Hi Mel, Linda and welcome to Mel.

    The most uninteresting fact of the day - snails are hermaphrodites, too.

    Annie

    Hi Annie,

    Did you fancy your biology teacher too then? :wink:

    No, that was the Music teacher! What stuck in my mind was that snails get the benefits of both, as it still takes two snails to tango! Why snails? Why not ME!

    Annie
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    my son had them :oops: :roll: made me itch something awfull lol
    val
  • lupin15
    lupin15 Member Posts: 2,182
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Great tell me more. Are you setting up a business to sell them on? Are they the ones that people use in their recycling bins to eat your house hold rubbish and turn it into compost? And for everyone if they are in the correct environment they do multiply there is good money in this business. Look forward to your reply.
    :):):):):):):):)
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Mel, and welcome to the forum. I'm afraid that I'm with Berty on this one. I'm not too keen on wriggly creatures with no legs, but I can see that they might be interesting to watch if you don't mind their wriggliness. Good luck with it :!: :D

    Joan
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  • wooly-monkey
    wooly-monkey Member Posts: 115
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Apparently I used to eat them when I was little.
    I was a war baby. I must have been starving.
    Wooly-monkey
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,281
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    wooly-monkey wrote:
    Apparently I used to eat them when I was little.
    I was a war baby. I must have been starving.
    Wooly-monkey
    Hi Wooly m
    You are not on your own there, my mum used to tell everyone we met that I would sit in the garden and eat worms, I was so embarrassed :oops: :lol:
    Barbara x
    Love
    Barbara
  • wooly-monkey
    wooly-monkey Member Posts: 115
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    barbara12 wrote:
    wooly-monkey wrote:
    Apparently I used to eat them when I was little.
    I was a war baby. I must have been starving.
    Wooly-monkey
    Hi Wooly m
    You are not on your own there, my mum used to tell everyone we met that I would sit in the garden and eat worms, I was so embarrassed :oops: :lol:
    Barbara x

    We had an air raid shelter in the garden Barbara. My mother told me (and everyone we met too) that I used to collect them in a cup then hide in the shelter to eat them. Thank goodness I can't remember what they tasted like. Can you?
    Wooly M
  • lupin15
    lupin15 Member Posts: 2,182
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    gritty very gritty got stuck in your teeth.
  • wooly-monkey
    wooly-monkey Member Posts: 115
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    If anyone here knows the words to "The Worm Song" PLEASE could you write them up for me. Thanks alot.
    Wooly M
  • robertls
    robertls Member Posts: 2,304
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    annie_mial wrote:
    Hi Mel, Linda and welcome to Mel.

    The most uninteresting fact of the day - snails are hermaphrodites, too.

    Annie

    Does that mean they live by themselves?????

    Rob x
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  • skezier
    skezier Member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hey Woolly,

    Nobody loves me, everyone hates me I think I will go and eat worms....

    Then its something like thin ones, thick ones, long ones short ones and I don't remember the rest...

    Cris x
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,398
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Wooly,

    Cris is on the right lines (Hi Cris :D ), it goes

    Nobody likes me
    Everybody hates me
    Just because I eat worms
    Short fat hairy ones
    Long tall skinny ones
    See how the little ones squirm
    Bite all their heads off
    Suck all the juice out
    Throw the empty skins away
    Nobody Likes me
    Everybody hates me
    Cos I eat worms all day
    Nobody likes us
    Everybody hates us
    Just because we eat worms
    Short fat hairy ones
    Long tall skinny ones
    See how the little ones squirm
    Bite all their heads off
    Suck all the juice out
    Throw the empty skins away
    Nobody Likes us
    Everybody hates us
    Cos we eat worms all day

    If you need to know any song lyrics just Google (or other search engine) the song title and type lyrics and you'll get the words. :D
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    We sang:

    Nobody likes me, everybody hates me,
    I think I'll go and eat worms,
    Long, thin slimy ones, short, fat hairy ones,
    Ugly ugly ugly ugly worms.
    The long, thin slimy ones slip down easily
    The short, fat hairy ones stick,
    And when the short, fat hairy ones stick between your teeth,
    That's when the juice goes oooooooooosh.

    It was a skipping rhyme. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • wooly-monkey
    wooly-monkey Member Posts: 115
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thank you for typing all that! I didn't know you could get the song lyrics from Google too. I have used it for book titles though.
    Thanks again. Have copied it out and stuck it on the wall.
    I did alot of skipping but never knew that one.

    Love Wooly
  • wooly-monkey
    wooly-monkey Member Posts: 115
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Good old Salvador Dali - mad as a hatter - love his work though
    Wooly.

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