My cup runneth over . . .
A wonderful Solemnity celebrated with a beautiful Mass; amazing weather and a very prayerful Rosary and Benediction in the afternoon.
And . . . we now have worktops on our new kitchen units, and . . . a working oven - still waiting for a sink and a hob but hey, you can't rush perfection!!
Just one little blot on the landscape - we were invaded by ants in the dining room! OK, not exactly a plague but enough for me to declare war on the formicidae. All gone now and hopefully they've got the message after being sprayed with ant powder and shown the insides of our hoover!
I know all you ant-lovers out there are muttering about how marvellous ants are; performing important tasks in the ecosystems where they live; turning and aerating the soil, dispersing seeds, helping pollination etc. etc. . . .
I'm sure you're right and that's fine with me. Well done all you helpful ants but please do all those useful things outside in the garden and don't invade my indoor ecosystem!
5 comments:
You can keep the ants outside without harming them : use 'Shout' (yes, the laundry spray !) to create a barrier across doorways, windowsills, &c - they can't cross it, but unless you actually spray them with it it appears to do them no harm !
Thank you for that tip, Dominic Mary. What a knowledgeable chap you are!
I've known ants to use little ladders to climb over the Shout barrier.
Another method to get rid of ants is to get a flat stone, or an old marble tile; mix on this tile a bit of sugar with a bit of pepper.
The ants will come to collect the sugar, they will inhale the pepper and sneeze so hard that they'll bang their head on the tile. They'll then go home for some aspirin; never to return again!
God bless.
Victor, you have a vivid imagination! :-)
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