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Going back to a reasonably recent thread on the lack of wasps this summer.
I found them. I discovered where they've been lurking all summer long. Wasps... bloody wasps... had no problem all summer and then on Saturday I discovered where the entire wasp population of the UK has been lurking all summer. Earsham, just outside of Bungay. The offspring was doing a time trial on Saturday, same venue as previous week. The previous week I'd collected a load of blackberries and made a delicious blackberry crumble that evening. So this week I thought I'd collect some more whislt the offspring was out cycling reasonably rapidly. I didn't get more than half a dozen though... over a good hundred yards of hedgerow - where the previous week I'd picked fruit unhindered, were clouds of wasps. They weren't going for the fruit - they were just flying about the hedgerow - *thousands* of the nasty things. BAH! Come on you weather experts - summon up a good frost to kill them all off please! |
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wafflycat wrote:
Going back to a reasonably recent thread on the lack of wasps this summer. I found them. I discovered where they've been lurking all summer long. Wasps... bloody wasps... had no problem all summer and then on Saturday I discovered where the entire wasp population of the UK has been lurking all summer. Earsham, just outside of Bungay.snip Also on the Thameslink line around Loughborough Junction yesterday - had to close all the windows in the carriage! |
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Maybe there was an ivy in flower nearby. They go crazy when that happens.
________________ Nick G Exe Valley, Devon 50 m amsl "wafflycat" waffles*$*A**T*v21net$*££*D*O*T*co*D£$£*O*T*uk wrote in message ... Going back to a reasonably recent thread on the lack of wasps this summer. I found them. I discovered where they've been lurking all summer long. Wasps... bloody wasps... had no problem all summer and then on Saturday I discovered where the entire wasp population of the UK has been lurking all summer. Earsham, just outside of Bungay. The offspring was doing a time trial on Saturday, same venue as previous week. The previous week I'd collected a load of blackberries and made a delicious blackberry crumble that evening. So this week I thought I'd collect some more whislt the offspring was out cycling reasonably rapidly. I didn't get more than half a dozen though... over a good hundred yards of hedgerow - where the previous week I'd picked fruit unhindered, were clouds of wasps. They weren't going for the fruit - they were just flying about the hedgerow - *thousands* of the nasty things. BAH! Come on you weather experts - summon up a good frost to kill them all off please! |
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Think of all those horrible flies that the wasps kill off then you won't
hate them quite so much. Jonquil |
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![]() "Nick G" wrote in message ... Maybe there was an ivy in flower nearby. They go crazy when that happens. ________________ Nick G Exe Valley, Devon 50 m amsl That's odd, why's that then? |
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Felly sgrifennodd
wafflycat remove celebrities, money and change caps to obvious: Come on you weather experts - summon up a good frost to kill them all off please! But won't a frost finish off the blackberries too? Adrian -- Adrian Shaw ais@ Adran Cyfrifiadureg, Prifysgol Cymru, aber. Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Cymru ac. http://users.aber.ac.uk/ais uk |
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Quoting from message
posted on 10 Oct 2005 by Adrian D. Shaw I would like to add: Felly sgrifennodd wafflycat remove celebrities, money and change caps to obvious: Come on you weather experts - summon up a good frost to kill them all off please! But won't a frost finish off the blackberries too? My Uncle woldn't eat blackberries after the end of September, said Owd Nick had trodden on them. Later ones do not usually have so much flavour - could be less sunlight or lower nightime temps. I'm not sure. (waiting for a bit more frost to get at the sloes before making sloe gin) -- ..ElaineJ. Briallen Gifts/Cards catalogue at http://www.briallen.co.uk ..Kinetic. Corn Dollies, Cards, Coasters, Mousemats, Kids' Tshirts StrongArm Jones' Pages at http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/ejones ..RISC PC. Corwen, North Wales; Steam Traction;CMMGB&Yukon Volunteers. |
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On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:52:50 +0100, Elaine Jones
wrote: Quoting from message posted on 10 Oct 2005 by Adrian D. Shaw I would like to add: Felly sgrifennodd wafflycat remove celebrities, money and change caps to obvious: Come on you weather experts - summon up a good frost to kill them all off please! But won't a frost finish off the blackberries too? My Uncle woldn't eat blackberries after the end of September, said Owd Nick had trodden on them. My grandmother used to say they had been kissed by the devil.... Later ones do not usually have so much flavour - could be less sunlight or lower nightime temps. I'm not sure. ours on the allotments have been finished for some weeks now, but there are still some tasty raspberries around. Our blackberries were very early this year, fortunately there are about a dozen large yogurt tubs of them in my freezer. (waiting for a bit more frost to get at the sloes before making sloe gin) -- Martin |
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