The message from Andy Hall contains these words:
Sorry, mate, it was too good a shot to miss.
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Waking up every day with insect bites on my legs
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Oh, I know. Completely justified and we are told that recycling is a good thing.
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I don't understand ...
Mary
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17 years ago
Good idea.
You can catch bugs and fleas if you can see them with a wet bar of soap.
Mary
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My mum used to put a (lit) nightlight in a saucer of water. The theory was that the fleas jumped towards the heat and drowned.
We never had fleas as children so perhaps it did work.
Mary
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Man goes into chemist in Sweden and asks to buy some deodorant.
Chemist: "Would you like ball or aerosol?"
Man: "Neither. I want it for under my arms"
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Very wise, but this being so I'm a little worried about global warming as I find it difficult to imagine that one could sleep with no covering in the UK in October. So how come you have your legs exposed? If you don't then the problem must be in the bed itself, the mattress probably.
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Man goes Him: do you have any featherlite condoms. Assistant: sorry we are sold out...have you tried boots? Him: I want to slide up not march up.
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That's supposed to keep elephants away as well..Did you see any .???
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Only the ones which drowned in the saucer.
Mary
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That must of baffled the medical proffession.
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The message from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:
He said he treated his aerosol and I said I thought the fleas were biting his ankles.
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It's no good if you have to spell them out.
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A handy trick if you mislay your contact lenses.
(Your protasis is amphibolic.)
Owain
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In an old servants' guide, one recommendation was to wipe the wainscot with petroleum spirit (1/6d a pint from the chemist, apparently). However, the servant was advised to do this by daylight and not to use a candle.
I can't say I would like the fumes from paraffin or petroleum spirit in my bedroom.
Colin Bignell
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I've used pyrethrum dust successfully. You can usually get that in garden centres.
Colin Bignell
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"Mary Fisher" typed
I need spectacles to see; I don't think a wet bar of soap would help ;-)
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Most likely you have BED BUGS, my man.
Start your research for a cure here:
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Check your fridge or larder for something left to go soft midewy, otherwise it is a guttering problem. This year there has been a rich harvest of gnats and a number of other insects too. So they are making the most of every nook in nature and you are in the firing line.
In the morning you will find them in any standing water such as the loo or a basin left with water in it over night. You might put a drop of bleach down plug holes and that sort of thing but are you sure that the bites haven't been aquired outside the home?
If you have engaged in a spot of gardening last thing in the evening or walked the dog by a canal or somesuch, that might have been where you aquired the problem.
IIWY I'd find out a little bit more about the life cycle of gnats and the like. And I'd treat the advice given by most of the other posters on your thread with not a little circumspection.
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Oh.
Doh!
Getting slow in my dotage!
Mary