Flies!

[rebness]

Arrgh! The suckiest thing about the British summer is the flies/wasps/other flying gits. You can rest assured that most of the summer will be blanketed in dark grey clouds (as the sky is now), but the chilly rain and miserable temperatures won't be enough to stop an influx of mosquitoes dining on prime British blood.

I was just sitting here minding my own business when a great big flying blob hurled itself at me. The fly, for that it was, buzzed maniacally and darted around the room, trying to land on my food, but, more alarming, my skin so that it could wipe all that crap it had collected all over me.

Out came the hairspray! Yes, people. Hairspray, as zhonghua2000 will agree, is the weapon of choice when it comes to flies. It sticks their wings together and means a quick twatting, as opposed to you choking on fly spray. I chased it around the room, screeching and jumping on and off the bed as it kept flying straight at me, then coated it in spray at the window. Ahahaha. Fly: 0 Becky: 1.

I really, really hate flies. They disgust me. An idle Google search tells me that there are 1,450 instances of "I hate flies" on the interwebs. A similar search for "I hate spiders" yields 15,200 results.

Now, I'm an arachnophobe. A spider is enough to send me shrieking out of the room, but really? Some filthy thing that wallows in excrement before vomiting over your food, that spreads diseases in some countries versus a Scary Thing With Too Many Eyes and Legs. It doesn't make sense, though I can tell you I'd be too terrified to face a spider even with the hairspray o'd00m.

Comments

[rebness.livejournal.com]

It's true; we don't have screen doors or screens on our windows. I think it's because, for six months of the year, we're free of the little flying menaces, but when summer comes around and you can't leave your window open for fear of mozzie bites, you start wishing it was something we'd implement. It's only really unbearable between June-September, but I've definitely noticed more of a problem with insects in the last few years. I could swear we never used to have mosquitoes this far north... probably to do with the theories about Europe hotting up of late.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Wow, that'd suck. Here we don't really have any bugs in the winter, either, but it's just standard that all windows have screens on them. Also keeps all the squirrels, birds, and stray cats out, which we have lots of all year round.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, yes. That's another thing-- the bloody birds. Chasing a robin around the house (as happened a couple of months ago) is no fun in the heat, I tell you.