The Ladybird's story

Once upon a time there was a Ladybird, a lady Ladybird... One fine day she was out looking for amusement.

 First she played at sliding down some of The Gardener's Broad Beans, using them like a ski-jump.

Then, feeling peckish, she went off in search of a tasty Blackfly or two.

While at the Blackfly restaurant she met a really attractive boy Ladybird. He was a foreigner and talked in a strange sort of way, but he was good-looking and smartly dressed and soon won her over. They went back to his place and before they knew it, well, this happened...
 

 
The next morning she was very upset - she felt like jumping off the highest Broad Bean plant she could find and ending it all...
 

 
When she realised that she was pregnant, she spent several days sulking, head drawn into her shell, embarassed even to be seen in public.
 

 
In the end though, she came to terms with her condition and found herself a nice pad in a bed of Celeriac, where in due course she gave birth to a handsome baby boy. He was so cute and good-looking that the lady Ladybird forgot all her previous regrets and began to revel in motherhood.

Of course the boy went through all the usual growing pains associated with adolesence

But in the end, like they all do, he grew up into a sensible young man and went his own way into the world. He even began to look a little bit like his mother...

And they all lived happily ever after!