[m i a o w] the cat

I can type this very quickly because it is not work time. Work time is when PartyPie sleeps – and as she only sleeps in grabs of forty to fifty minutes about three or four (if we’re lucky) times a day – I have not got any work done this week. Anyway, here in Trailerland I am sitting here amidst the most disgusting fly plague. There are a ba-MILLION flies and somehow they keep getting into the trailer.

Now, the trailer and I have an understanding. We are fond of each other. Living here is serving a purpose – it is not my heartfelt dream to reside in a trailer, but it serves its purpose while M is building the Very Large Catamaran. However, as the trailer is…a trailer – it is sometimes easy for it to regress into icksville. (As opposed to Hicksville…although that’s nearby.)

I am reluctant to spray because I don’t want PartyPie to have Aeroguard lungs, but there are only so many I can kill with a skanky teatowel. Am plotting to see if local supermarket has some antiquated flypaper (the odds are slightly higher on that than them actually stocking tofu or the check-out person knowing what rhubarb is). The flies are really unbearable – I can’t even nap with PartyPie in bed during the day because they keep landing on us – she has to nap under netting in her pram. Gah.

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There are these stickers that you put on windows that apparently work very well, but I’ve been told they are hell to remove after the initial period that they work (3 months?). There are also these little cubes that you put about the house that do the same thing. Maybe these sorts of things would be good and avoid aeroguard lung creation??

I remember when we were kids there were these coils things that Mum burnt, but if I’m remembering rightly they were for mozzies, not flies, and I’ve got a feeling they caused house fires too, so maybe that’s not such a good idea….

Rae typed this on Apr 25 08 at 6:24 pm

There is a recipe for making your own flypaper if you don’t have any luck. I haven’t had a chance to make this yet so it is untested..
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2007/09/13/2032074.htm?site=brisbane

Jo typed this on Apr 26 08 at 1:02 pm

Fly swatter instead of tea towel works better for me (not that I’m that great at hitting them).

I think any of the chemical vapour things you wouldn’t want around the baby. The fly paper works hanging from the ceiling but I find I seem to walk into it.

We had in our old home what were known as cluster flies that seem to have bred in the window space between the outside siding and inside wall (if that made any sense to you). Same deal hundreds of flies so you might want to have another look and see what the situation is in the trailer to try and find any openings in windows, doors, ceilings etc. It’s possible if you found out you could do a one time spray of the Raid or something into the crevices on an afternoon you and PartyPie are out visiting and then air out the place when you get home.

Karen typed this on Apr 27 08 at 7:00 am

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