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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Bar Wench on July 15, 2007, 01:36:49 PM
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Do you get them in this country? Because I swear that things have suddenly started to evacuate the earth! eeek:
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give it another few weeks and the crane fly invasion will start
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Nope, is deffo flying ants. Had a very brief rain storm and now the ground looks as though it is moving! eeek: Big thunder too! eeek: scared2:
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Yes we do get flying ants in this country.
My wife's late Grandmother used to get confused (don't we all with age) and once poured cold water on an ants nest and threw a kettle of boiling water at an intruding cat that she spotted digging in her garden!
The ants survived to fight another day but we never saw the cat again eeek:
The old girl was in her nineties so I guess it's excusable.
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Boilng water on ants nests? Does that sort them out then? rubschin:
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Boilng water on ants nests? Does that sort them out then? rubschin:
Yup!
So does Jeyes Fluid if you have any to hand.
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F-ing hell! The sky has opened! It's torrential! eeek:
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F-ing hell! The sky has opened! It's torrential! eeek:
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Told you so last night .... but would you listen??
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redface: noooo: redface:
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Boilng water on ants nests? Does that sort them out then? rubschin:
Bloody hells bleedin' bells Wenchy. eeek:
Didn't you do basic general science at school?
I think you'll find that boiling water tends to eradicate virtually every living creature known to man.
Make sense when you think about it dunnit?
If in doubt, fill the bath up with some, and jump in....on 2nd thoughts cus I don't really trust your integrity/intelligence anymore....DON'T! noooo:
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Nah... Dettol Kitchen Spray is the thing for ants - flying or otherwise mobile... ;)
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Boilng water on ants nests? Does that sort them out then? rubschin:
Bloody hells bleedin' bells Wenchy. eeek:
Didn't you do basic general science at school?
I think you'll find that boiling water tends to eradicate virtually every living creature known to man.
Make sense when you think about it dunnit?
If in doubt, fill the bath up with some, and jump in....on 2nd thoughts cus I don't really trust your integrity/intelligence anymore....DON'T! noooo:
Don't worry Santa ~ I have it on good authority she is not really blonde ~ just acts like it at times.
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When we once lived on your side of the water we seemed to keep on having problems with wasp infestations, (1) building nests in the loft, (2) garage and also (3) in between the bricks of the house under the kitchen window.
For problem (1) we called in the local exterminator experts who climbed up in the loft and sprayed some gunk around and then VERY QUICKLY fell back through the loft door stating ?Don?t go up there for a while mate!?
For problem (2) we took things into our own hands (joint venture on this one) and whilst I held the large bin bag Mr. Brave Barman knocked the nest into it and bish bosh job?s a goodun
For problem (3) Barman decided to solve it himself one day when I was out by filling up the holes in the bricks they were getting though with bath sealant!!!! Came back to hear loads of really p*****d off wasps humming around inside the bricks of the house and see loads of equally p*****d off wasps outside the kitchen window trying to get in to save those who had been Bathsealed????.
Have to hasten to add that none of these actions would have been taken if the offenders were those nice little bee thingy?s but wasps, YUCK, no good to man nor beast (that I know) so I don?t feel guilty.
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F-ing hell! The sky has opened! It's torrential! eeek:
Just had that too... whilst on my way to Sainsburghers redface: . It's almost tropical... stair rods, up-rain, steaming tarmac... ah, and now the sun's out again ::)
At what point do we start factoring in the Monsoon season? scared2:
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Do you get them in this country? Because I swear that things have suddenly started to evacuate the earth! eeek:
Yes - and how!
On a particular date previously arranged between them and god, they ALL fly out of the holes in the ground at exactly the same time.
Last year when the weather was somewhat better, I saw them all blitzing out and when we went for a drive later the same thing was happening all over the countryside. By the next day they had all vanished again. ...and I forgot all about them again, until now.
It must be some kind of party day.
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Do you get them in this country? Because I swear that things have suddenly started to evacuate the earth! eeek:
Yes - and how!
On a particular date previously arranged between them and god, they ALL fly out of the holes in the ground at exactly the same time.
Last year when the weather was somewhat better, I saw them all blitzing out and when we went for a drive later the same thing was happening all over the countryside. By the next day they had all vanished again. ...and I forgot all about them again, until now.
It must be some kind of party day.
Really quite freaky! All gone now. The holes must be drowned! eveilgrin:
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Do you get them in this country? Because I swear that things have suddenly started to evacuate the earth! eeek:
Yes - and how!
On a particular date previously arranged between them and god, they ALL fly out of the holes in the ground at exactly the same time.
Last year when the weather was somewhat better, I saw them all blitzing out and when we went for a drive later the same thing was happening all over the countryside. By the next day they had all vanished again. ...and I forgot all about them again, until now.
It must be some kind of party day.
Really quite freaky! All gone now. The holes must be drowned! eveilgrin:
Can you please explain how you drown a hole exactly? Since, first and probably foremost, a hole in inanimate, it cannot be drowned since drowning is the act of expiring through excessive consumption of water in places not designed for its presence i.e. the breathing apparatus.
The ants (flying or crawling or even levitating) can be drowned as can crane flies (before they're flying - it's a bit tricky with a water pistol and tends to make a mess thus aggravating the shit out of SWTSMBO), but not the holes!
O.K.?
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Errr~ I don't wish to intrude but has someone upset you today?
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Who Sir?
Me Sir?
No Sir!
Why??
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Who Sir?
Me Sir?
No Sir!
Why??
You seemed a bit grumpy that's all. Sorry redface:
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Who Sir?
Me Sir?
No Sir!
Why??
You seemed a bit grumpy that's all. Sorry redface:
Don't be embarassed Snoops - I probably am a bit on the grumpy side as it happens.
Went out earlier for a general mooch about with SWTSMBO on our bikes. Cycled away from where we'd parked up the car, discovered the local RNLI were doing an 'open day' thing with various activities including a bunch of wackos on those Pro Jump thingies eeek:
God was obviously not in a good mood, 'cos the heavens opened. It PISSED it down!! Thunder, lightning, horizontal raindrops that would fill an eggcup on their own, the bleedin' lot.
What were we wearing? Jeans and T-shirt! Talk about wet!
So, yes probably a bit grumpy.
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That'll be it then ~ Nothing like a wet shroud to take the gloss off your day.
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The holes must be drowned! eveilgrin:
I'd get that electrician back if I was you Wenchy, something amiss in your 'ed today chick. noooo:
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The great day has come! The bastards are everywhere cussing:
Time for some chemicals eveilgrin:
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The great day has come! The bastards are everywhere cussing:
Time for some chemicals eveilgrin:
Just ignore them. They only buzz around for 12 hours, their wings drop off, and then they go back to their nest.
Summat to do with the Queen ant or summat.
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Do you like snails?
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Do you like snails?
Look plumb 'ed. Are you really not wanting me to come over on Saturday, ey? evil:
Stop talking absolute food shite or I'll bloody drag you kicking and screaming into a MuckDonalds. eveilgrin:
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OK. I will eat them all tonight then ::)
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OK. I will eat them all tonight then ::)
You're ferkin' ill in the 'ed you are. sick2: