Flies ....

[Janet]

has anyone else got hordes of the bloody things at the moment? We rarely see any, thankfully, but at the moment there are swarms of the damn things.

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Yes and they're damned annoying.  We are looking to buy one of those electric bug zappers. 

Yesterday to my astonishment, we had a hornet flying around in the courtyard.  I've never seen one here.  It was about the size of an Egyptian hornet like they get in Greece - huge.

[poker]

Did they give manuere to the bananaplantaitions arround you?
Thats were the most come from .

[Janet]

no banana plantations up here, P.

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Although there is supposed to be a dutch-owned banana plantation in our town, which we never heard of.  One day we got stopped on the street by some dutch tourists looking for it; it was recommended in a guidebook.  But we have never found it.

[Michael]

Although there is supposed to be a dutch-owned banana plantation in our town, which we never heard of.  One day we got stopped on the street by some dutch tourists looking for it; it was recommended in a guidebook.  But we have never found it.

Not the sort of thing you'd miss. 

[El Profesor]

It's the rain wot done it.
All the supermarkets have run out of fly spray.

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

One of my classmates arrived in class today with flyswatter in hand.  Later on I was shopping and saw a woman coming out of a store with one thing:  a flyswatter.  Guess the replacement stocks of fly spray haven't arrived.

[Janet]

How do the buggers just know what a fly swat is? I was being plagued by two earlier, buzzing around my head, on my hands, but they evaporated the minute I picked the fly swat up! And this seems normal. They always disappear when it makes an appearance! 

[poker]

They are called smartflies and have evolved to not be swatted by youre fly swat . ;D:))