Today is the last day of May ... you didn't really need me to tell you that did you ... but I thought I would anyway. How is the time managing to whizz by so quickly when all I am doing is pottering through the days with all the speed of a Sloth on Diazepam.
I don't know, but bye bye May you were a strange month that's for sure.
The flies are driving me mad at the moment.
They squeeze in through the smallest of openings when you're not looking and then seemingly are completely unable to negotiate flying out through an open window, or the six foot by three foot wide open door space. They then proceed to fly round and round bashing themselves on the glass until they are so knackered or concussed they drop down dead on the windowsills ... relieving their little yellow-filled bowels in their final stress filled death throes all over my nice clean white window frames.
I've taken to going round twice a day with my little hand-held GTECH hoover-y thing to suck up the bodies. I'll need to have a mass cremation soon
That's what I need on each windowsill, a bored looking frog to sit and eat all the pesky little black visitors.
Ribbit ribbit 🐸
That's the end of May then!!
Sue xx
Lovely post Sue - made me smile from beginning to end.
ReplyDeletePS It takes a good writer to make me smile at the thought of fly poo!
ReplyDeleteHaha ... I aim to please ;-)
DeleteI'm totally with you on the hating bloomin flies front. They always seem to turn up when I'm making a meal and make me totally paronoid about them landing on our food. Horrible things. We have a strip curtain between the outside door and kitchen yet they still get in and as you say don't exit when you open the big windows. Grrr.
ReplyDeleteOh gosh yes, I hate them near food 😟
DeleteWhere, do you suppose, are all the flies coming from, Sue? We seldom have flies but there again we have a tiny garden and the only produce we have are three tomato plants (and they're not doing too well, either!) We don't have a compost heap - our garden is too small to have one - so perhaps your flies are coming from a compost heap if you have one (if flies actually congregate on compost heaps, I've no idea!) but here we seldom see a fly or a blue bottle or even a wasp.
ReplyDeleteHowever ... we will have a contingent of flying ants in mid-July, when they all emerge from cracks in the paving stones in our garden and fly merrily away. But no flies. (Now I expect I will see some after telling you this!)
Margaret P
Well we had a major hatching out of large bluebottle style flies in the polytunnel but luckily few of them managed to find their way over to the house. The compost bins are over on the hillside Veggie Patch so not close to the house really.
DeleteBut I guess living in the countryside with nearby sheep, cows and of course our own chickens means there really is no chance of getting away from flies of one description or another.
May 12th was our wedding anniversary and my grandson's third birthday and May 25th my 60th birthday so should have been an eventful month but of course had to be celebrated in these new distanced ways. I have to say though that the weather has been the most spectacular I ever remember for May and I am as tanned as if I have been on holiday which of course I suppose I have. We also get pesky flies coming in through a crack and can't then escape through wide open window or door which has always amazed me so I am glad that we are not alone.
ReplyDeleteSo many celebrations and events have been missed over the past few months ☹️ One of them was my 60th in April, so snap!!
DeleteSomeone on a website fill a clear plastic bag with water and a few pennies at the bottom, hang near an open door etc and flys won't come in. The science is the water and pennies make a prism which they hate due to their multi fascinated eyes. I've not tried it myself yet. But people were saying it works. Bertie catches for me but I have snot marks all over the windows.
ReplyDeleteI would need to fill a lot of bags with water ... but I might give it a go on the living room window to see if it helps. I've heard of this before.
DeleteThe joys of country life.
ReplyDeleteFlies are not keen on my chain fly screen at the back door but still manage to come in through any open window - Big buzzy bluebottles - I have a fly swat on every window-sill and I know you are too kind-hearted for that!
Mum used to poison use with fly-spray back in the 60's!
Very few bluebottles come in, thank goodness, it's a medley of annoying tiny critters and the odd wasp 🐝🦟
DeleteImagine how sticky the windows would be if I used fly spray 🤣