Bloody wasps!!!
May 9, 2016 19:56:42 GMT
Post by PinkFloyd on May 9, 2016 19:56:42 GMT
The first really decent day up here today (25C!) so I decided to mow the grass..... any of you who have seen it knows it's a damned lot of grass to mow. Anyhoo....... I started to build up a bit of a sweat so removed my T-shirt and laid it down on an old tree stump. Yes, before I go any further, you heard me right, I was outdoors up here wearing a T-SHIRT!
After about an hour of mowing the sweat was pouring off my head so I went to get the T-shirt to mop my head with it....... picked it up and OUCH!!!! a bloody wasp stung me on the inside of my index finger. I don't know what type of wasp it was but the sting was pretty damned sore and my finger started to swell up about 20 minutes after being stung..... it's now 9pm and the finger is STILL stinging. My mate reckoned it could have been a hornet but it looked more like a wasp to me and a very large wasp at that!
Luckily I don't have any neighbours because I was running about the garden shouting out "bastard!" and other appropriate expletives! I detest wasps, have been stung many times but have never ever felt a sting like this from a wasp..... this was an UBER painful sting and still stinging as I type this but nowhere near as intense as the initial sting..... I can only describe it like somebody stabbing a 450C soldering iron onto your finger.
It's so typical of this flamin' place..... any good days we DO have are spoilt by insects whether they be wasps, midges or harvest flies..... the harvest flies are the worst, they follow you around in a swarm and for some strange reason want to fly into your ears.... really annoying bloody things!
I can't wait to move into town but doesn't look like that's going to happen anytime soon..... the house has been on the market for 3 years now and about a dozen people have come to view it. There are no midges or harvest flies in town and the back gardens have lawns that you can mow in 10 minutes...... this damned football pitch sized lawn is a pain in the arse, in fact the entire building is a pain in the arse what with thing after another going wrong and I desperately want to downsize to a smaller / easier to manage joint.
Anyhoo.......
After about an hour of mowing the sweat was pouring off my head so I went to get the T-shirt to mop my head with it....... picked it up and OUCH!!!! a bloody wasp stung me on the inside of my index finger. I don't know what type of wasp it was but the sting was pretty damned sore and my finger started to swell up about 20 minutes after being stung..... it's now 9pm and the finger is STILL stinging. My mate reckoned it could have been a hornet but it looked more like a wasp to me and a very large wasp at that!
Luckily I don't have any neighbours because I was running about the garden shouting out "bastard!" and other appropriate expletives! I detest wasps, have been stung many times but have never ever felt a sting like this from a wasp..... this was an UBER painful sting and still stinging as I type this but nowhere near as intense as the initial sting..... I can only describe it like somebody stabbing a 450C soldering iron onto your finger.
It's so typical of this flamin' place..... any good days we DO have are spoilt by insects whether they be wasps, midges or harvest flies..... the harvest flies are the worst, they follow you around in a swarm and for some strange reason want to fly into your ears.... really annoying bloody things!
I can't wait to move into town but doesn't look like that's going to happen anytime soon..... the house has been on the market for 3 years now and about a dozen people have come to view it. There are no midges or harvest flies in town and the back gardens have lawns that you can mow in 10 minutes...... this damned football pitch sized lawn is a pain in the arse, in fact the entire building is a pain in the arse what with thing after another going wrong and I desperately want to downsize to a smaller / easier to manage joint.
Anyhoo.......