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Title: Bloody insects!
Post by: tel on August 20, 2009, 02:47:36 PM
Well I suppose they are insects.

The instep on my left foot started itching last night, didn't pay too much attention to it. This morning I could hardly put my shoe on, 2 nasty bites/lumps. They itch like murder and they are driving me crazy.
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 20, 2009, 02:51:41 PM
Confused vampire bites  scared2:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: tel on August 20, 2009, 02:55:41 PM
Well actually, we do have bats.
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 20, 2009, 02:56:22 PM
Did your feel your appendages being nibbled last night  whistle:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: tel on August 20, 2009, 03:21:56 PM
Now you mention it, I was feeling a bit stiff this morning.
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Post by: Snoopy on August 20, 2009, 03:28:03 PM
That's normal at your age.  whistle:
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Post by: Pastis on August 20, 2009, 03:47:53 PM
You've been got at by the dreaded No-See-Ums, tel  noooo:
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Post by: Snoopy on August 20, 2009, 03:52:19 PM
Clearly Mother was right to tell me not to play with kids from Sarf of the River  whistle:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Pastis on August 20, 2009, 04:00:10 PM
 lol: lol:

More commonly found Sarf of the Mason Dixon line  ;)

http://pelotes.jea.com/AnimalFact/Arthropod/NOSEEUM.htm
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Bar Wench on August 20, 2009, 06:26:11 PM
I have been bitten to pieces. A mosquito got inside my pyjama leg last night.  redface: I am covered from waist to ankle.  sad24:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Darwins Selection on August 20, 2009, 06:31:03 PM
I have been bitten to pieces. A mosquito got inside my pyjama leg last night.  redface: I am covered from waist to ankle.  sad24:

PYJAMAS!  eeek:

Good grief girl, I'm probably old enough to be your grandfather and I haven't worn them since Churchill was in power.

You should wear nothing or sexy-frillies at your age.  noooo:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Pastis on August 20, 2009, 06:43:17 PM
 Popcorn:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Bar Wench on August 20, 2009, 07:44:05 PM
I have been bitten to pieces. A mosquito got inside my pyjama leg last night.  redface: I am covered from waist to ankle.  sad24:

PYJAMAS!  eeek:

Good grief girl, I'm probably old enough to be your grandfather and I haven't worn them since Churchill was in power.

You should wear nothing or sexy-frillies at your age.  noooo:

I currently have no sexy frillies in the correct size and I was cold!
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Darwins Selection on August 20, 2009, 08:17:34 PM
I have been bitten to pieces. A mosquito got inside my pyjama leg last night.  redface: I am covered from waist to ankle.  sad24:

PYJAMAS!  eeek:

Good grief girl, I'm probably old enough to be your grandfather and I haven't worn them since Churchill was in power.

You should wear nothing or sexy-frillies at your age.  noooo:

I currently have no sexy frillies in the correct size and I was cold!

Wear sexy frillies of any size and you will soon be hot.
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Nick on August 20, 2009, 08:18:01 PM
Do they make them in size 20?
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: tel on August 21, 2009, 06:40:55 AM
Not enough sleep, too much itching.

I am knackered
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Darwins Selection on August 21, 2009, 06:52:13 AM
Not enough sleep, too much itching.

I am knackered

The itching will stop when they hatch.
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: tel on August 21, 2009, 08:55:03 AM
Why are they sudenly picking on me this year. Ants, mossies and unknowns.

Never used to get bitten or stung when I was fishing.

Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Darwins Selection on August 21, 2009, 12:06:19 PM
Why are they sudenly picking on me this year. Ants, mossies and unknowns.

Never used to get bitten or stung when I was fishing.


Probably your blood-alcohol level is a quarter of what it was.  whistle:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 21, 2009, 12:11:40 PM
Attacking you while you are asleep and motionless is pretty much the same as when you are fishing  whistle:.....perhaps they just prefer the indoor temperature  cloud9:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: tel on August 21, 2009, 01:33:16 PM
I was got whilst I was awake, sometime Wednesday evening.
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 21, 2009, 01:43:59 PM
A sensitive creature then are you  lol: ......do you have any pets you can blame ( fleas and stuff) , stagnant lake in the garden ( Mossies) , foreign trips to unexplored terroritiries ( flesh eating bugs)

What are you using on it to reduce the itching???
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Barman on August 21, 2009, 01:50:14 PM
Clear nail varnish is good for insect bites like...
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: tel on August 21, 2009, 01:53:01 PM
A sensitive creature then are you  lol: ......do you have any pets you can blame ( fleas and stuff) , stagnant lake in the garden ( Mossies) , foreign trips to unexplored terroritiries ( flesh eating bugs)

What are you using on it to reduce the itching???

Pets all gone.
May have been when I was working in next doors garden - the other day I came in and found a grasshopper up my sleeve.

Itching - tried hydro-cortisone but reverted to germolene.

And it's still bloody itching, maybe incresed alcohol intake will provide slumber tonight.
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: tel on August 21, 2009, 01:54:26 PM
Clear nail varnish is good for insect bites like...

I am not in the habit of carrying nail varnish around with me, despite anything that TMR might imply from my ownership of a manbag!
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Snoopy on August 21, 2009, 01:55:01 PM
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Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 21, 2009, 02:04:05 PM
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Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on August 21, 2009, 02:10:09 PM
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My mother used to buy this when we were kids. It was green then,  I used to love the smell of it.  It doesn't smell the same any more. sad24:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Darwins Selection on August 21, 2009, 02:13:07 PM
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Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 21, 2009, 02:21:37 PM
exactly DS ...  8)
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: tel on August 21, 2009, 02:59:48 PM
They didn't have them in Superdrug yesterday.
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Snoopy on August 21, 2009, 03:03:36 PM
Try a proper pharmacy instead of a cheapskate trying to be everything store like Superdrug.
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Nick on August 21, 2009, 07:46:40 PM
We are plagued here. A blind man could read me like a book  noooo:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Darwins Selection on August 21, 2009, 08:22:47 PM
We are plagued here. A blind man could read me like a book  noooo:
The Scarlet Pimplenell?
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Nick on August 22, 2009, 06:52:45 AM
I think my left leg reads 'May contain nuts'  cry:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Snoopy on August 22, 2009, 07:35:13 AM
We are plagued here. A blind man could read me like a book  noooo:



Wishful thinking there? ~ Note he didn't say a blind woman could.  whistle:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Nick on August 22, 2009, 09:05:15 AM
I don't know any blind wimmin, unfortunately
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Darwins Selection on August 22, 2009, 02:05:50 PM
I don't know any blind wimmin, unfortunately

Their guide dogs are trained to keep them away from you, like many other potentially dangerous items.
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Pastis on August 22, 2009, 04:14:12 PM
Masseurs (masseuses also) in Korea are predominantly blind. I just thought I'd share that with you  angel1
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 22, 2009, 04:15:14 PM
Surely they just say that to make you feel more at ease  eyes:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Pastis on August 22, 2009, 04:24:41 PM
You think I was duped?  eeek:   

That might explain the giggles  rubschin:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 22, 2009, 04:27:13 PM
and the round of applause  whistle:
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Post by: Pastis on August 22, 2009, 04:41:01 PM
said Fruity, from Somerset   lol: lol:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 22, 2009, 04:47:12 PM
 lol: lol: lol:

I know I am in a rather juvenille mood  redface:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Snoopy on August 22, 2009, 04:51:12 PM
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Altogether now!

"Coates comes up from Somerset, where the cider apples grow.....!"
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 22, 2009, 04:55:19 PM
and I've got a brand new combine harvester and I'll give you the key ......... noooo: noooo: noooo:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Snoopy on August 22, 2009, 05:02:34 PM
No m'dear ~ that lot came from Dorset.
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 22, 2009, 05:07:23 PM
No m'dear they did not  whistle:

December 1966 ? the world would never be the same again! A band of strangely dressed men with odd looking instruments leapt on stage at the ?Royal Oak Inn? Nailsea, Somerset and proceeded to record a ?live? album for the EMI record company. This was Adge Cutler & The Wurzels? first LP and it sold in massive numbers, quickly followed by a single which charted nationally and then an EP ?Scrumpy & Western? ? this was the start of a musical revolution that is still going strong over 40 years later!  noooo: noooo: noooo:

But Adge?s reign as King of Scrumpy & Western music ended abruptly and tragically. On Sunday 5th May 1974 came the shattering news that Adge had died in the early hours when his car overturned at a roundabout approaching the Severn Bridge. He was returning alone to his new house at Tickenham from a successful week of shows in Hereford. The eulogies made were numerous, but in the end Adge Cutler was just a true countryman: a Somerset man who knew his homeland, its characters and their foibles. The wit of his lyrics encouraged Somerset folk to laugh at themselves. He was that rare bird ? a born entertainer, just slightly bemused even to the end that his little songs had brought so much pleasure to so many people



 whistle:

Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Snoopy on August 22, 2009, 05:13:48 PM
Sorry ~ mixed them up with the Yetties who do come from Dorset.
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Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 22, 2009, 05:19:16 PM
They're all strange  noooo:
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Post by: Snoopy on August 22, 2009, 05:23:22 PM
Oh I dunno ~ a few pints of scrumpy and I'll sing along with the Yetties all night.
I have an old cassette which the boys insist we play whenever we are en route to Dorset.
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 22, 2009, 05:25:47 PM
Scrumpy causes THE WORST hangovers  noooo: noooo: noooo:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Snoopy on August 22, 2009, 05:29:05 PM
Never reaches my head. I find the legs tend to give way though.

In a line from a Yetties song ~ "Me arms was runnin' fast enough but me legs 'ad turned to lard"  lol:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Pirate on August 22, 2009, 06:56:24 PM
Nowt wrong with Somerset. I love Exmoor. My favourite pub is in Luxborough
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Post by: Nick on August 22, 2009, 08:40:44 PM
Do they use Vaseline?  angel1
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Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 22, 2009, 08:45:38 PM
 whacky115
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Grumpmeister on August 22, 2009, 09:23:19 PM
We are plagued here. A blind man could read me like a book  noooo:
The Scarlet Pimplenell?

The Doomsday Book.  whistle:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: tel on August 24, 2009, 12:01:09 PM
A grasshopper has now moved in.

Keep hearing it, but can't find it.
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 24, 2009, 12:07:48 PM
Patience Glasshoppa   8)
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: tel on August 24, 2009, 12:09:53 PM
Could I not see that coming.

Still I suppose you are in Monday mood.
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Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 24, 2009, 12:10:50 PM
Someone had to ...it was VP duty  whistle:
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Post by: tel on August 24, 2009, 12:16:24 PM
Someone had to ...it was VP duty  whistle:

A flimsy excuse.
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 24, 2009, 12:25:58 PM
OK then - I am boring and predictable  sad24:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: tel on August 24, 2009, 12:30:06 PM
 rubschin:
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Post by: Snoopy on August 24, 2009, 12:33:14 PM
Sorry ~ my mind was still on the flimsy bit  cloud9:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on August 24, 2009, 12:42:46 PM
Sorry ~ my mind was still on the flimsy bit  cloud9:

Down boy.. lol:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Snoopy on August 24, 2009, 01:08:46 PM
 redface:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: tel on August 24, 2009, 01:09:17 PM
Sorry ~ my mind was still on the flimsy bit  cloud9:

I was afraid of that.
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: tel on September 10, 2009, 12:53:19 PM
I've beent bitten again - ankle bone - itches and is swollen. Also rubs against shoe/trainer etc.  Banghead
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: Nick on September 10, 2009, 01:00:23 PM
Bit it back  eveilgrin:
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Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 10, 2009, 02:39:57 PM
Bed bugs  rubschin:
Title: Re: Bloody insects!
Post by: tel on September 10, 2009, 02:57:12 PM
My beds not bugged.

Who would want to do a thing like that?