I always had a dream of living in a house in the countryside. Living with nature surrounding me every day. The reality of living in the country is the farmer "muck" spreading in the fields all around us - lovely smell on a sunny day!! But the worst thing has been the flies!! You kill one and two more appear. Fly spray - they laugh at it and continue to dive bomb your head!! I finally gave in and bought some fly papers which I have hung in the kitchen/dining room. Within an hour I had caught two of the little darlings!! I hate the papers but I hate flies even more!!
My black and white image of a day in my life for a week.
That gave me a giggle. Our village had a lovely aroma this morning!! I grew up in Birmingham then lived in Leeds, now in the countryside. I love it and the smells it brings!!
Wow I haven’t seen one of those sticky things fir years! Horrible things but you’re right they do catch flies! Sorry you are plagued with the pests....I love the smell of much spreading not so keen on slurry spreading though....I doubt it’s the spreading that’s brought the flies as they don’t usually follow into the field, it will be the animals them selves causing it.
Totally agree with Jane @jgpittenger. Throw in dust-storms, the odd flood, a couple of mouse plagues, plus a few plagues of grasshoppers and you may like to rethink your rural urges.
@Weezilou I can assure you none of the above are at all funny. Not good to come back from a week or so away and find the mice have been through your bed and all your clothes drawers and chewed holes in some things into the bargain. Disgusting stuff. You soon learn to keep all the tinned pantry stuff, mugs etc upside down so the tops stay clean.
@golftragic I thought you might be speaking hypothetically as there's so much chaos already! A few years ago Lunenburg became infested with rats as we never had been! It became clear that an old building on the wharf was torn down at the same time streets were being dug up to repair pipes, and were were the rats to go but to people's homes! Everyone was furious as it cost each of us to hire exterminators and throw out food. Better planning precautions should have been taken before removing the building! But too late! Nasty stuff indeed!
Nope none of the examples were at all hypothetical, I've experienced all of them at first-hand several times. It's these kinds of things that tree-changers often don't factor into their thinking. Depends where you are too, of course. As for 'your' rats, that sounds totally ghastly, total lack of foresight on someone's part. We live quite close to the Barwon River and rats are common here, but not in plague proportions. We have several dog-proof bait stations around the garden and keep the beggars well fed with them out there. None in the house for many years.
May 12th, 2020
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