Sigh.. sure sign it's getting warmer

FoxEye · 24 Mar 2020 at 00:21

Every bloomin' time I go to take a drink from my cup of tea, there is now a drowned fly in it.

For Pete's sake. Why do they do this?!?!?!

I want to drink my tea sans fly, and the fly should want to keep living/existing, and the way to accomplish both is for the fly not to drown itself in my tea.

Is that too much to ask, universe?

Angilion · 24 Mar 2020 at 02:38

The first step is to introduce spiders to kill the flies...

moon man · 24 Mar 2020 at 04:25

ive noticed a hell of a lot of roadkill ,not necessarily in my tea though

Dirk Diggler · 24 Mar 2020 at 07:01

Maybe you should remove that dressed up, rotting corpse from the upper bedroom window...

Rroff · 24 Mar 2020 at 07:09

Animals seem to think Spring is coming but the weather seems less sure - had a frost this morning and the forecast shows a mini cold spell albeit some warmer days but cold to very cold nights.

Participant · 24 Mar 2020 at 08:00

I washed the cars yesterday and loads of flies flew into the soap suds, attracted I guess by the sweet smell.

Rroff · 24 Mar 2020 at 08:03

Participant said:
I washed the cars yesterday and loads of flies flew into the soap suds, attracted I guess by the sweet smell.

Late afternoon was crazy for gnat like flies - we had two huge swarms dancing in the sunlight along our drive.

diamount · 24 Mar 2020 at 09:11

They seem to appear out of nowhere when it's warmer, nasty buggers hibernating...

FoxEye · 24 Mar 2020 at 16:00

diamount said:
They seem to appear out of nowhere when it's warmer, nasty buggers hibernating...

Yeah I never seem to see them flying *into* the tea.

It's only when I pick up the cup, and sure as clockwork, the GB Synchronised Fly Swimming team is all lined up doing their amazing drowning routine.

dirtychinchilla · 24 Mar 2020 at 16:11

We're in that annoying phase where it's not cold enough to have the heating on much, but it's not warm enough to have windows wide open. So you open the windows, sit in the cold for a while, put a jumper on, and then close the windows. Rinse and repeat.

FortuitousFluke · 24 Mar 2020 at 16:18

Angilion said:
The first step is to introduce spiders to kill the flies...

I believe there was an old lady who was an avid proponent of this method.

McBain · 24 Mar 2020 at 16:39

About time, sick of the cold weather - bring on the summer! Shame we might not be able to get out and enjoy the warmer weather too much :/

builder22 · 24 Mar 2020 at 17:20

Angilion said:
The first step is to introduce spiders to kill the flies...

perhaps she'll die!

robfosters · 24 Mar 2020 at 17:22

Today’s been glorious, like the first true taste of spring.

what a day to start three months of lockdown :rolleyes:

Flibster · 24 Mar 2020 at 17:38

My hayfever kicked in last week too. I think it was when everyone decided to cut the grass.

Just in time for a nationwide tissue shortage... Thanks hoarders. :mad:

FloppyPoppy · 24 Mar 2020 at 17:43

FoxEye said:
Every bloomin' time I go to take a drink from my cup of tea, there is now a drowned fly in it.

For Pete's sake. Why do they do this?!?!?!

I want to drink my tea sans fly, and the fly should want to keep living/existing, and the way to accomplish both is for the fly not to drown itself in my tea.

Is that too much to ask, universe?

I mean you could start by cleaning the house. ( in a none mean way ) but the cleaner the house the less fly's will come.

FoxEye · 24 Mar 2020 at 17:43

McBain said:
About time, sick of the cold weather - bring on the summer! Shame we might not be able to get out and enjoy the warmer weather too much :/

Now is a good time to discover a love for gardening.

Admittedly this is a bit harder if you don't have a garden. So any new build them, which are al basically glorified shoe boxes backing on to the street.

FloppyPoppy said:
I mean you could start by cleaning the house.

Reported for swearing (using the "c"-word).

Nasher · 24 Mar 2020 at 17:45

Build a fish pond. It can double as water storage incase you lose water mains

McBain · 24 Mar 2020 at 21:29

FoxEye said:
Now is a good time to discover a love for gardening.

Admittedly this is a bit harder if you don't have a garden. So any new build them, which are al basically glorified shoe boxes backing on to the street.

Reported for swearing (using the "c"-word).

I do have a decent size garden, sadly that's one thing about summer I can't stand - mowing the grass

FoxEye · 24 Mar 2020 at 21:34

McBain said:
I do have a decent size garden, sadly that's one thing about summer I can't stand - mowing the grass

Been sowing some ornamental grasses this year and last. Various types and colours, nice evergreen ones in oranges, reds, lime greens, chocolate browns.

One of the few plants I don't immediately kill, grasses

Our pathetic lawn (mostly shaded by trees, and lately consumed by expanding veg plots) is being replaced by some lovely "proper" grasses that look neat, sway in the breeze, and - most importantly - don't ever need mowing