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"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!"
What's even more scary is why I had to give up my collection. It started with a nasty imperator boa constrictor, used to take chunks out of me. That started the wife on the rampage, though to be fair, I had about 40 tanks. One particular day I was pulling the back legs off a box of crickets, stopped them jumping so easier for the lizards to catch, I knocked the box of 250 on to kitchen floor. The bastards went everywhere. The noise for the next week was terrible, we were finding them everwhere. I came home one day with an ultimatum, her or my reptiles.
Those were the days, Nothing better than sitting down relaxing on a summers afternoon pulling the back legs off a box of crickets
Doesn't get any better than that, does it mate? Except p'raps mebbe seeing how far up your nose you can shove one o' them plastic Eiffel Tower souvenir thingies.
I had a busy wasps' nest in the roofspace of my shack last year. I discovered it - and many wasps being sleepily prat - on a slow hot day in September as I was happily toking off down there. I decided to leave it as the Winter would see them off. We'll see, but it has been all quiet for months. You don't notice their shit so that's a bonus.
I had a busy wasps' nest in the roofspace of my shack last year. I discovered it - and many wasps being sleepily prat - on a slow hot day in September as I was happily toking off down there. I decided to leave it as the Winter would see them off. We'll see, but it has been all quiet for months. You don't notice their shit so that's a bonus.
My Dad, God rest his soul, had two garden sheds. Above one of them was an Elder tree with a wasp's nest attached to a branch right above the roof of the shed.
Now my dad was one these guys who would try anything once, but usually his efforts were not successful. Anyway, he decided the nest had to go as he couldn't get in the shed. I came visiting the night he decided to do the deed and found him in the back garden with a Zippo and can of Bel Air hair spray! He used the hairspray like a flamethrower and hit the wasp's nest face on! Unfortunately, the nest then fell off the branch and landed on top of the shed, burning it to the ground! And the wasps weren#t that amused either, as we ran faster than we had ran before, in order to get under cover!
We sat in my car and watched the bastards stunning themselves on the windows in the efforts to get at us!
He was so calm about it all. "At least we got rid of the wasps," was his only comment!
No man has the right to fix the boundary of a nation.
No man has the right to say to his country, "Thus far shalt thou go and no further."
Wasps never return to the same nest, mice however not so fussy , my neighbours feed the birds and thats a good way to attract rats but if you have them then unlikely to have mice aswell . The traps from wilkinsons are good with a raisin or piece of white chocolate.
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