Today was 30 degrees plus, hot & sunny, contrasting with most of last week when we needed the heater on. Spring is such a capricious season. I had my first bad bout of hayfever - had been immune this year so far, much to my surprise.
As I sit here just past midnight (11pm only if you base it upon the time before daylight savings came in a few days ago)I'm surrounded by a cloud of midges (tiny pesky insects) flying around and landing on me, desk, everything. My PC screen is coated with them. One got into my eye and hasn't surfaced yet. "How do they get in (to the house)?" is my perennial question. I ask the same question of the millipedes which swarm through the house after rains. Recently, they have been a resurgence of them, and sitting here in the office, I can hear the "plop plop plop" as they fall from the ceiling. Their usual style is to crawl across the floor, reach a vertical surface, then climb climb climb until they reach the ceiling, then across the ceiling, then plop onto the floor to begin the whole slow journey again. God forbid that one should leave any food or drink uncovered. And one might get a case of RSI bending over & picking up the stray ones wandering across the floor (with a tissue not bare hands eek). Months later, one finds them tucked away under boxes, in drawers, every conceivable nook. Oh and then there are those irritating buzzzy flies, large ponderous ones and the small hyperactive sticky ones. Next thing you know we're going to get another beetle plague like we have experienced twice already. At this time of year it's like living in a horror/comedy movie!
I guess I should remind myself that country life has its wonderful blessings too, but right this moment I can only see the other side of the coin!
