So, yeah, to follow up on Arram's difficulties, it's mosquito season again. I gave the little guys some antihistamines tonight to draw down their welts, since there was apparently a regrettable sandfly invasion during recess today.
We also broke down and invested in chemical repellants for the house, the most common solution here in 'fly screens are silly' land. We got a gizmo that attaches to the wall and sprays out a burst of something that they claim is All Natural but is probably some sort of mutagen every twenty minutes or so. And because we want to get rid of the bugs without going all Naked Lunch for our trouble, we stuck it on an exterior wall so that it sprays out over the big balcony door that's the entry site of most of our trouble.
Between that and using the vacuum cleaner hose to remove the mosquitoes from our closets every night (the preferred hideout for mozzies-- now you know) the situation seems to be improving. Now if we can just get the boys to stop scratching.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
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Do Kiwis believe in mosquito netting for beds? "Mozzie" sounds like a gangster term!
All I can picture is Amiri and Arram swinging merrily from their shredded netting.
Ohhhh! that is so funny! What a happy mental image of merriment and mayhem!
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