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So - have you noticed how every sentence nowadays has to begin with So - So, yesterday, went into the West bedroom, and the sill of a window we haven't opened since autumn because I double-glazed, was alive with ants. Flying ants and ground-based variety.
So, I took down the secondary dg and opened the window, the airborne troops took flight, their ground partners were suckered into taking a ride into an air current leading to our vacuum bag. Today, some Nippon has been noshed, all pretty much quiet.
So today there I am walking through the sitting room, bzzzzzz, in the front window a dozen or so wasps, which on closer inspection turned out to be bees. Very nice, except that they were inside the window. So I'm standing there thinking ??? and bzzzz from the fireplace.
Now, last year, I drilled four 1" vent holes in the side of the stack at the top, to let out any trapped heat and to create an air current to get rid of damp, and, peering up with the binos yes, a bunch of bees has decided that this constitutes a great place to set up shop.
So, you'll be wondering, how do they get from there to the fireplace when there must be a register plate?
Ahh, reason is that in order to create aforesaid air current, I left a nice gap at the back of the register plate, maybe a wonky half inch between the plate and the wall. So, now I'm stuffing bubble wrap into the gap, letting the bees out of the window, insectolating those that won't co-operate.
So I decide I need to chase them out of the stack, light the fire!!
But over the summer, the kindling has become damp. And the bees are also coming down the flue. So, not easy to light. Eventually get it going.
Now the bees are buzzing around the stack, some fall onto the register plate or continue to come down the flue, hsst, hsst.
And it's getting pretty warm in there and I can't open the window. And I wonder whether they'll just move back in when I let the fire go.
Yesterday, had the renewal letter for the house insurance. More fuss about the thatch. One of the 'helpful suggestions' is to drill a hole in the stack to prevent heat building up against the thatch. That seemed a good idea, I was pondering drilling the other stack. Somewhat changed my mind now.
And outside the sitting room door in the pyracantha, wasps are building a lovely nest. So I thought. But now there are more wasps. And the nest is getting bigger. Bad word like bigger. Swat to do...
Nature... wonderful. So they say.
Ivor
So, I took down the secondary dg and opened the window, the airborne troops took flight, their ground partners were suckered into taking a ride into an air current leading to our vacuum bag. Today, some Nippon has been noshed, all pretty much quiet.
So today there I am walking through the sitting room, bzzzzzz, in the front window a dozen or so wasps, which on closer inspection turned out to be bees. Very nice, except that they were inside the window. So I'm standing there thinking ??? and bzzzz from the fireplace.
Now, last year, I drilled four 1" vent holes in the side of the stack at the top, to let out any trapped heat and to create an air current to get rid of damp, and, peering up with the binos yes, a bunch of bees has decided that this constitutes a great place to set up shop.
So, you'll be wondering, how do they get from there to the fireplace when there must be a register plate?
Ahh, reason is that in order to create aforesaid air current, I left a nice gap at the back of the register plate, maybe a wonky half inch between the plate and the wall. So, now I'm stuffing bubble wrap into the gap, letting the bees out of the window, insectolating those that won't co-operate.
So I decide I need to chase them out of the stack, light the fire!!
But over the summer, the kindling has become damp. And the bees are also coming down the flue. So, not easy to light. Eventually get it going.
Now the bees are buzzing around the stack, some fall onto the register plate or continue to come down the flue, hsst, hsst.
And it's getting pretty warm in there and I can't open the window. And I wonder whether they'll just move back in when I let the fire go.
Yesterday, had the renewal letter for the house insurance. More fuss about the thatch. One of the 'helpful suggestions' is to drill a hole in the stack to prevent heat building up against the thatch. That seemed a good idea, I was pondering drilling the other stack. Somewhat changed my mind now.
And outside the sitting room door in the pyracantha, wasps are building a lovely nest. So I thought. But now there are more wasps. And the nest is getting bigger. Bad word like bigger. Swat to do...
Nature... wonderful. So they say.
Ivor