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<blockquote data-quote="BillB" data-source="post: 206083" data-attributes="member: 9985"><p>Thanks for the explanation, Viviennem. Now I know that the nasty little stingers do serve some purpose. Fortunately, I’m not allergic as I’ve been stung many times over the years, the last time just last week. Oddly enough, I used to work with a Scot who had been climbing a tree when he was a boy and banged his head against a wasp nest he didn’t know was there. He was stung many, many times and was close to death in hospital for several days. The upside was that he was totally immune to wasp stings ever after that. I have seen him catch a wasp in his hand and then pull out the sting to prove to the sceptics that his story was true.</p><p>That’s a useful tip, Raydavies. If I ever get a nest in the trees in my garden, I’ll go shopping for one of those. One of the reasons (though not the main one) we left Spain was because it was virtually impossible to eat outside in the warm weather. If it was breakfast they would turn up for the marmalade and the butter, at lunchtime they would make a beeline for the olive oil and at dinner they would go for anything that had fat in it. And if we waited until dark to eat, the wasps would be all back in their nests but the mosquitos would be out, devouring us alive.</p><p>Lovinglife (what a great name, by the way, it’s exactly how I feel, too), we only stayed in the house because the ceiling was blocked off by very thick cardboard and another layer of tape on top of that. In addition, we had the doors closed, and the key in the keyhole so we felt pretty safe. And thank you for the kind words about my travel posts. Haven’t been away much this year, apart from Florida, but our Californian friends are coming over next month and we have rented a house in Provence for a fortnight together. I’ll put anything interesting in a post. And our 50th anniversary trip, planned and booked for October was cancelled by the travel company as there were not enough clients for it. We’ve booked instead to tour Japan in November (our anniversary is on 11 November), so I’m sure there’ll be something of interest there to post. And then, after swearing last Christmas that we’ll never go away again at that time of year (the roads were blocked with snow, you may recall), Claire Skyped us from California to say that she and Terry were flying with their California-based son and his family to Hawaii to spend Christmas with their Australia-based son and his family. Guess who’s going to take care of the house and the cat?</p><p>DazG, an odd coincidence – I was a passenger in a car in Spain a good few years ago when the car drove into a swarm of bees. Luckily the windows were closed and the air conditioning was on, but the exterior of the car was covered in them and we couldn’t shake them off even by exceeding the speed limit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BillB, post: 206083, member: 9985"] Thanks for the explanation, Viviennem. Now I know that the nasty little stingers do serve some purpose. Fortunately, I’m not allergic as I’ve been stung many times over the years, the last time just last week. Oddly enough, I used to work with a Scot who had been climbing a tree when he was a boy and banged his head against a wasp nest he didn’t know was there. He was stung many, many times and was close to death in hospital for several days. The upside was that he was totally immune to wasp stings ever after that. I have seen him catch a wasp in his hand and then pull out the sting to prove to the sceptics that his story was true. That’s a useful tip, Raydavies. If I ever get a nest in the trees in my garden, I’ll go shopping for one of those. One of the reasons (though not the main one) we left Spain was because it was virtually impossible to eat outside in the warm weather. If it was breakfast they would turn up for the marmalade and the butter, at lunchtime they would make a beeline for the olive oil and at dinner they would go for anything that had fat in it. And if we waited until dark to eat, the wasps would be all back in their nests but the mosquitos would be out, devouring us alive. Lovinglife (what a great name, by the way, it’s exactly how I feel, too), we only stayed in the house because the ceiling was blocked off by very thick cardboard and another layer of tape on top of that. In addition, we had the doors closed, and the key in the keyhole so we felt pretty safe. And thank you for the kind words about my travel posts. Haven’t been away much this year, apart from Florida, but our Californian friends are coming over next month and we have rented a house in Provence for a fortnight together. I’ll put anything interesting in a post. And our 50th anniversary trip, planned and booked for October was cancelled by the travel company as there were not enough clients for it. We’ve booked instead to tour Japan in November (our anniversary is on 11 November), so I’m sure there’ll be something of interest there to post. And then, after swearing last Christmas that we’ll never go away again at that time of year (the roads were blocked with snow, you may recall), Claire Skyped us from California to say that she and Terry were flying with their California-based son and his family to Hawaii to spend Christmas with their Australia-based son and his family. Guess who’s going to take care of the house and the cat? DazG, an odd coincidence – I was a passenger in a car in Spain a good few years ago when the car drove into a swarm of bees. Luckily the windows were closed and the air conditioning was on, but the exterior of the car was covered in them and we couldn’t shake them off even by exceeding the speed limit. [/QUOTE]
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