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drummerman

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... Flies are stupid.

No matter how far you open windows, they never find the exit and rather be squashed.

With regards to turntable vibration damping, if you have a hollow plint table, get some small mailbags, the ones with the self seal lip, fill with dried sand and place in the plinth, careful not to obstruct any suspension.

Cheap and very effective.

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drummerman said:
... Flies are stupid. No matter how far you open windows, they never find the exit and rather be squashed.
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I agree with this, and you can say more: no matter how little you open a window, a fly will always fly in. No matter how wide you open it, it will never fly out again.
 
drummerman said:
... With regards to turntable vibration damping, if you have a hollow plint table, get some small mailbags, the ones with the self seal lip, fill with dried sand and place in the plinth, careful not to obstruct any suspension. Cheap and very effective. regards
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You are CJs son and I claim my 5 pounds.

Mibbe I will try sand from both coasts down here , ye never know I could get different results. Hey I could even mix it up.

Should I get the dog sh**e out of it first ?.

Bees are just as stoopid ,but I catch em and let them outside. Likes bees I does.

Wasps are nasty little bastid vermin , torch em with a flaming jet of WD40 .

Ok ,Im off to spin another record :grin:.
 
New houses built where it was woodland previously are the worst for insects. The bug life takes decades to adapt to the change and will invade in vast numbers regardless of the fact that the trees and forest floor have gone.

My brother's new house and it's garden would get covered (inside and out) in bees, wasps (social ones and the solitary ones that make homes in outdoor walls), frogs, adders, spiders of all sizes (actual seething 'carpets' of tiny spiders in the garden as well as humungous ones indoors), hornets, ants (red and black), beetles (including stag beetles), craneflies, dragonflies, moths (enormous ones the size of a *** packet), bumblebees, normal bees etc. etc.

About the only insect he never saw were house flies. I hated going there because I would invariably go home bitten and stung by something. (I would have installed a sprinkler system in every room connected to a tank of 'Raid'!)

The nice thing about living in an old house in a city is that I barely ever see an insect indoors and the spiders all mind their own business and stay out of the way. If I see a large spider (after pulling out furniture and hoovering or whatever) I always nudge it along with a magazine then give it a minute or two to run away and hide before evicting it (only if it's stubborn and refuses to disappear of it's own volition). That might be part of the reason we see so few insects and the resident spiders look so healthy on the rare occasions they get disrupted 🙂
 
Spiders are cool too. I've got a couple of big uns in the lounge. Every evening they venture out from under the sofas, meet half way and have a little scrap ,then leg it home again. 8).
 
IIRC twas on a shelf above the block. I keep having wasp visions ,lol. " can I have a pound of that furry mince please"
 
floyd droid said:
IIRC twas on a shelf above the block. I keep having wasp visions ,lol. " can I have a pound of that furry mince please"
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"Fit as a Butcher's Wasp," doesn't quite cut it (so to speak). :doh:
 
floyd droid said:
Ha ha , nowt wrong wi that Cno. This is a major league thread c**p innit.
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It's given to be even hotter tommorrow...........God knows what untethered lunacy that will bring. :twisted:
 
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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