My 'back garden'
So summer it seems has finally dragged it's self kicking and screaming north of the border. I hasten to add this is not the summer that memories are made of and we still of course have a 'stiff breeze' but the sun has shone all day and we attained a maximum of 21 degrees earlier this afternoon. That may not seem so impressive to some of you but believe me it is not to be sniffed at in these parts!
Of course every silver lining has it's cloud and along with the sun have arrived the bugs. Scotland is infamous for its flies apparently and my bit of Scotland seems to be no different. The sun would be a treat if I could actually venture out in it without becoming covered in thousands of the minute black creatures. They tickle like hell, crawl in your ears, eyes, mouth and up your nose! Damnable things. By later tonight these things will have mustered their troops to such as degree that it will be impossible to keep a window open. They are in such numbers that they require vacuuming off the windowsills at least 3 times a day and will, by late night, have congregated in such numbers on the windows that on a bad night it will be barely possible, quite literally, to see outside!
So I will go now and enjoy my summers evening, shut inside with Big Brother.......
itch, scratch, itch!
4 Comments:
hey Red! I've had great luck using horse-type insect repellants.. go ask the neighbor... i have a friend who swears she can 'pray them off'....lol...meanwhile, whilst yer ducking them, check out the pic i just posted! Today was way-fun.. and i look forward to many more, but i'm off..(with my bug-wipe) to the great outdoors...salude
Hi flower,
Yeah today was good :o)
Think I'll try the horse stuff not the praying! I'm on my way to drop by your blog now.....have a good day and I'll catch ya soon.
You must get lots of compliments on the cat animation. I love the shot of the yard. AW would love that much of a playground.
I do but undeservedly, it's only a gif I thieved from somewhere! Lol. I keep meaning to make my own of one of our cats but thus far my technical know how is still struggling.
The 'garden' isn't actualty ours, it belongs to the farm behind our home but backs immediately on to our property as we have no 'offical' garden, hence I jokingly refer to it as 'my garden'. It is lovely tho to have all that space :o)
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