I am sure I do remember that last year I was saying at about this time "oh dear the postyman is on strike and it is a worry because it is my birthday soon" and it seems like the same thing is happening all over again but a bit earlier because my friend Helen's birthday is on Sunday and all the presents that me and my friend Nick have got her was supposed to be coming in the post and I am very very worried that they will not arrive even though they was ordered ages ago now. Last time my friend Helen said to me that birthdays is allowed to go on all month if there is a problem so we might have to do that and spread it out but I do not think it is as good though.

All of my friend Helen's caterpillers have gone to sleep now and we are waiting for them to finish being pupae which sounds like they are little dogs but it is what they are called apparently and not like the butterflies which was called a chrysalis. They got very very fat in the end and was as long as a finger

fingerbob

and it is amazing when you do remember that they was just little yellow dots when we did first get them!

Anyway they have all changed now and are in some dirt because that is what they like to do and they stop eating and wander round and round and round for hours and hours and some of them did wear a track all round the edge of their tub but in the end they all do this

going
going more
goodbye

and they dig so quickly the pictures was a bit blurry so I am sorry for that. Before they went my friend Nick also did this picture because they have all got a pattern on their backs that looks like dots and dashes

morse caterpiller

and he was wondering if anyone knows the Morse Code because it is dots and dashes as well so we was wondering if they was trying to tell us anything and maybe it was the instructions and it says "please feed me lots of leaves" or "My name is Shtumpy please return me to..." and then our address in case they are lost.

Unfortunately it is a bit cold and horrid out now and they have missed summer so my friend Nick has got to make a special house for them to fly about in out of bamboo sticks and special netting (if it does arrive in time in the post!) so we will not be going in the front room to watch telly or anything for a while and also there are no flowers left now so my friend Nick has made a fake one for them with tubes coming out that can have honey and water in and they must learn to have a drink from that when they come out.