Where have they gone?
As anyone anywhere near Brisbane can tell you we seem to have skipped spring and gone straight on to summer. Last week we had 35 degrees celcius here one day. I had to check the calendar to remind myself that it was still late winter after all. I need to digress here to mention the blogpoll. Unknown to me my blog template disappeared so I had to get a new one but the blogpoll disappeared also. I seem to think though that most agreed with me that spring was the best season closely followed by autumn with just one person voting for winter.
Along with the summer temperatures have come the common house flies. Maybe it's because some of our fly screens need checking for holes. With having the windows open some of the little blighters got in. The problem is that we don't have a fly swat. At the end of autumn I threw our last one out because it was so disgusting to look at - it was beyond the 'put gloves on and wash thoroughly outside' stage even. I figured I'd get a new one ready for spring.
Fly swats are pretty cheap. I remember when we first lived in the country town we had Anika in a little push stroller and were searching the local cheap shop for something. Anika was rather quiet so we didn't pay much attention to her until it came time to leave. She had picked up a fly swat on our travels and was waving it around the air and having a wonderful time. We bought it as we needed one at the time (it was summer). It cost all of 34c and entertained Anika for most of the afternoon until we needed to put it to use.
So why is it that I can't find one in the shops even though I seem to have searched everywhere? The pest control section, the general household section, everywhere! Please don't tell me about those fly catcher containers with the stuff inside. I tried them one year and the stuff inside reeked with a smell of rotten potatoes. *Very* rotten potatoes. I ended up putting it outside and it soon became choked with dead flies. They attract flies all right but they attract *all* the flies in the suburb so you end up with more flies than ever.
At dinner last night we mused about why there are no fly swats. I suggested that perhaps the RSPCA had outlawed them. Anika suggested Amnesty International had something to do with it. Hubby just spent his time trying the hit the flies with a rolled up towel.
Maybe we need to get inventive and make our own somehow? I found this device in Google Images:
The handle looks rather interesting. Maybe it's a fly swat shoe phone?
Along with the summer temperatures have come the common house flies. Maybe it's because some of our fly screens need checking for holes. With having the windows open some of the little blighters got in. The problem is that we don't have a fly swat. At the end of autumn I threw our last one out because it was so disgusting to look at - it was beyond the 'put gloves on and wash thoroughly outside' stage even. I figured I'd get a new one ready for spring.
Fly swats are pretty cheap. I remember when we first lived in the country town we had Anika in a little push stroller and were searching the local cheap shop for something. Anika was rather quiet so we didn't pay much attention to her until it came time to leave. She had picked up a fly swat on our travels and was waving it around the air and having a wonderful time. We bought it as we needed one at the time (it was summer). It cost all of 34c and entertained Anika for most of the afternoon until we needed to put it to use.
So why is it that I can't find one in the shops even though I seem to have searched everywhere? The pest control section, the general household section, everywhere! Please don't tell me about those fly catcher containers with the stuff inside. I tried them one year and the stuff inside reeked with a smell of rotten potatoes. *Very* rotten potatoes. I ended up putting it outside and it soon became choked with dead flies. They attract flies all right but they attract *all* the flies in the suburb so you end up with more flies than ever.
At dinner last night we mused about why there are no fly swats. I suggested that perhaps the RSPCA had outlawed them. Anika suggested Amnesty International had something to do with it. Hubby just spent his time trying the hit the flies with a rolled up towel.
Maybe we need to get inventive and make our own somehow? I found this device in Google Images:
The handle looks rather interesting. Maybe it's a fly swat shoe phone?
posted by Mrs Q @ 9:51 PM
1 Comments:
At September 19, 2009 at 1:33 AM ,
Felicity said...
have you tried fly paper? You can get it from Mitre Ten or Stratco, and sometimes Woolworths stock them. All else failing give us a phone call and we shall get one and put it in the mail for you...
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