That was brutal

[wiseheart]

I had to get up an hour earlier, so that I could prepare everything (including Mum's breakfast) before the chiropodist lady would arrive. It turned out, I could have slept in - she didn't arrive before 10.30am; by then I've made 9 more cellophane bags. She then worked on us for two and a half hours and talked us to death in the process. Especially Mum, as I escaped as soon as she was done with me to do the second half of the weekly shopping.

When I came home she was gone, but then I had to rearrange the living room to its usual configuration. Then I made the remaining little bags; now they are done and I've run out of cellophane. But I think 64 bags ought to be enough. *g*

No cooking was done today; we ate leftover soup and some sandwiches. Temperatures have dropped a few degrees - for now, tomorrow they'll start climbing again - but the invasion of the flying dinosaurs continues. When I went out today, the scenery reminded me of that Hitchcock movie with the birds - only with oversized insects instead.

Considering that the frigging beasts are supposed to be night-active, they were certainly swarming - literally swarming - all over the place the whole morning. They're still around, but since we keep the windows closed at this time of the day they can't get in now. A couple of them are still inside the flat; when I can I chase them out of the window, but last night I managed to kill two of them... that was very satisfactory. I don't know what happened. I've never seen so many of them, especially during the day, since we moved here almost fifty years ago.

Comments

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

Eek- swarming dinosaur moths, and some of then in the flat! Outrageous!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Definitely!

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

Hope you didn't have to listen to that damn song in the Birds. That song drives me nuts.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Then I'm perhaps lucky that I don't remember it. ;))

[meathiel]

Weird about the moths.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

They are slamming against the windowpanes like kamikaze bombers! Unfortunately, the impact doesn't kill them, and once inside, they're really hard to smash. So far I've killed six of them, allowing the rest to escape through a window if they were willing.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I hope your unwanted guests disappear soon. Congrats on finishing the cellophane bags.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I hope the beast will be gone, soon. Now that Mum managed to take a fall again, I'll be occupied enough without them. :(

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

You know it’s strange, because we had more moths than usual this year too. Not giant ones though. Shudder.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

They are harmless, unlike their smaller comrades, but huge and disgusting. Shudder indeed.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

I would be locked inside the house, on the edge of hysteria. I can get panicked if I encounter a swarm of greenfly or gnats.