[katex]

[QUOTE=lillypad;420500]

Originally Posted by katex

Right - now we have sorted the ants and wasps, what am I to do about all those blooming midges that are gathering outside my new French windows .. described in the dictionary as insects with piercing mouthparts for sucking blood ?

try smoking!!!! when i go for a walk down the canal if i light up they don't bother me

Yeh, think you're correct here lillypad .. have tried it (a tip from my former husband who fished) .. and seems to have effect. Trouble is, although am quite a heavy smoker, not a chain smoker .. so the little buggers get me in the end ...

Perhaps could walk about with one of the swinging lamps things like they do in religious festivals