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Rogue Fly
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Been buzzing in here all night, keeps getting near me ears. Too early for flies, surely?
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When I am reading late at night in bed suddenly IK hear a buzzz from somewhere so I stop reading and listen to see where it is coming from. It stops. I pick up the book again and just start reading and hear it again. This gooes on for ages and the bugger never seems to come into view until I feel it buzsz against my ear and bounce on the pillow. It would be funny to watch ther ensuing battle with whatever is at hand. In the end I get the fly spray and nearly pass out myself.
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These particular "sleepy buzzy" flies hole up for the winter in crevices often in the loft by the warm boiler chimney breast. Then they creep out somehow via the loft hatch and buzzy sleepily around the bedside lamp when I am reading. On the window sill of the room where the loft hat is situated I have a proper sticky fly catcher and it is full of the buggers.
I've been less bothered with flies since I bough a decent UV killer. Sad to realise the tubes don't last as many hours as I'd assumed though. When one went the other would not continue without it and I discovered they aren't expected to last the year long :-( So I'd been lucky it lasted not unlucky it had gone already.
When I describe this fiasco to my children and go into exaggerated acting mode I have them in fits. It is the bump bump buzz on my pillow right next to my ear that gets to me. In the end far from being made sleepy by reading (usually in the early hours anyway) I am thoroughly wide awake and furious by the time the blighter has been dispatched. (should that be despatched?)