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by way of an apology - I couldn't find a cup & cardboard or a bug catcher so, here's the aforementioned vacuum cleaner!

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Thank you :D

By the way, that little green person is soooooo how I react to spiders :roll:
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I am being held hostage by a wasp. IT is in my living room with the sofa and the tv, I am in the hall, sitting on the stairs with my daughter's laptop! When the buzzing stops I may pluck up the courage to go back in and see if it has flown out the door :roll:
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I'm a trained negotiator, lonelymom, tell me what the wasp wants, and I'll do my best to work something out... :lol:
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:lol: :lol: :lol: LMAO!

I'm alive, and the situation is over. I think the wasp escaped out the patio door while the coast was clear :)
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Ajarn Philip wrote:tell me what the wasp wants
I think it wanted to hurt me, Philip :cry: It was evil, pure evil!
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Ajarn Philip wrote:I'm a trained negotiator, lonelymom, tell me what the wasp wants, and I'll do my best to work something out... :lol:
Just had a braii (BBQ) at which a "wasp" attended uninvited. No, he was not pleasant company - he was at least two inches long, very black with just a hint of yellow and very noisy. He was even unaffected by our patented high voltage (child warning included) tennis racket shaped fly remover - the bog-standard old fashioned fly swotter dealt with him after being pushed from the back very hard.

Negotiations Phil? I negotiate after destroying the enemy - far more permanent and effective
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sejintenej wrote:I negotiate after destroying the enemy - far more permanent and effective
Yay, a wasp exterminator. My hero! :heart:
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A true story.

At the beginning of last season at Dorking FC, as safety-officer, a supporter of the visiting team approached me in a highly irate state to say that his wife was being pestered by A WASP.

Strangely, I thought, the said visitor was NOT amused when I asked him to identify which wasp it was, and I would certainly ensure that the said wasp would be evicted from the ground !

There's no pleasing some people ! :axe:
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I see that "Sejintenjes" (or summat) refers to a Braii --- the famous Braiivleis of S Africa --- where unless a man can eat at least a pound of meat and two litres of beer,--- he can't be invited !
I was last there 2 years ago, visiting my cousins -- both of whom played for Western Province -- and they laid on a massive Braii for my self -- and the Blessed Anne, who had not been to the Republic before --- 30 Guests -- all Family !

A better Country, than it was , when I was there ! :oops:
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J.R. wrote:A true story.

At the beginning of last season at Dorking FC, as safety-officer, a supporter of the visiting team approached me in a highly irate state to say that his wife was being pestered by A WASP.

Strangely, I thought, the said visitor was NOT amused when I asked him to identify which wasp it was, and I would certainly ensure that the said wasp would be evicted from the ground !

There's no pleasing some people ! :axe:
and I thought everyone appreciated your sense of humour

Everywhere my offspring have played an outdoor sport there have been wasps, soft drinks cans, sweet/chocolate wrappers in the bins always attract wasps. Perhaps his wife was wearing one of those gummy sweet lip glosses.
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My Lip Gloss has never attracted Wasps ------ nor anybody -- mores the pity ! :lol:
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In a mad moment I said I would have a go at shifting some of the cobwebs in the higher reaches of the side chapel at church, because I have one of those long brushes that can be attached to the paint roller's extension pole. However this morning I noticed that there are at least three large hairy tenants still in residence - now I am having second thoughts! The Betta Bug Katcha is far too short!!
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NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote:I see that "Sejintenjes" (or summat) refers to a Braii --- the famous Braiivleis of S Africa --- where unless a man can eat at least a pound of meat and two litres of beer,--- he can't be invited !
I was last there 2 years ago, visiting my cousins -- both of whom played for Western Province -- and they laid on a massive Braii for my self -- and the Blessed Anne, who had not been to the Republic before --- 30 Guests -- all Family !

A better Country, than it was , when I was there ! :oops:
Summat 'll do and I hope you enjoyed the monkey-gland sauce on it! My local (UK) dentist clan - some 8 or so of them - claim to have a braii every weekend and even put on shorts and galoshes when it was snowing. Hence the need for 2 litres of beer to anaesthetise (?)them in advance!
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Fjgrogan wrote:In a mad moment I said I would have a go at shifting some of the cobwebs in the higher reaches of the side chapel at church, because I have one of those long brushes that can be attached to the paint roller's extension pole. However this morning I noticed that there are at least three large hairy tenants still in residence - now I am having second thoughts! The Betta Bug Katcha is far too short!!
an obvious question, but does the bug katcha fit on the extendable pole? You might need our old mate "Gaffa"!
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