Comment posted Nigel Price, Property Manager at Crarae Gardens in the van on the war on midges by S.White.
Thanks for setting me straight. Poor things, now I feel so churlish for slagging them.
S.White also commented
- Oh great, so we have to freeze till we’re blue during the winter or suffer the little bloodsuckers the following summer. Personally, I blame the birds, the swallows to be precise. They have failed to keep to the productivity targets I have set them and I have therefore threatened them with eviction from the free accommodation under my eaves which I have always provided them. Lazy little beggars.
Recent comments by S.White
- Campbeltown rumours about Wind Towers declared unfounded
For Hughie -I haven’t actually kept a log of the number of times I’ve had to pull over onto a rough and crumbling road verge, inches from a half hidden suspension busting ditch, to avoid a windmill. But it has happened far too often.
Comparing them to Tesco, Coop, milk lorries is silly. These vehicles transport cargo of intrinsic value which we all require, food. Neither do they require police escorts, so they don’t waste valuable police time.
As Lowry points out, employment is an important issue. But it makes no sense, economic or moral, to create jobs for a few windmill makers by adding to the fuel poverty of the entire country.
- Campbeltown rumours about Wind Towers declared unfounded
On the other hand, if the rumours ARE true, then it is also good news. No more convoys of enormous windmill components trundling up and down our inadequate roads, knocking the stuffing out of them, causing traffic congestion, and diverting our police from their proper duties. And all paid for by us taxpayers. - Good appointment to council press office
Now that we have a new appointee to the press office, do we need to continue paying for the absentee, Jo Smith? - Axed Argylls deployed to Olympic Games security
I don’t suppose I’m the only one to wonder what will happen in future when our army has been cut by another 20,000. Say, for example, another foot and mouth outbreak coinciding with our forces being fully committed to another of the vanity wars which seem to have become a rite of passage for our recent prime ministers. Shudder. - Council to review primary education provision for Dunoon
p.s. – and when are we going to have a resolution of the dysfunctional communications department, whose chief is still under suspension on full pay at our expense, and is directly under the control of Sally Loudon?
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In Castleton, outside Lochgilphead, there has been a mysterious absence of midges for weeks now, and likewise at Cairnbaan, apparently – so the question is why none this year in some places that are usually just as afflicted as elsewhere?
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Comparing last year with this is ridiculous. Last year we had a particular severe winter, this year a mild one. The lack of midges last year compared the multitude this year is surely explained by those seasonal variations — last summer was comparably crap to this.
If the coming winter is mild and the following summer mild and wet, we’ll see numbers which will dwarf this. I’m hoping for another cold one. The lack of midges last year was wonderful!
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Oh great, so we have to freeze till we’re blue during the winter or suffer the little bloodsuckers the following summer. Personally, I blame the birds, the swallows to be precise. They have failed to keep to the productivity targets I have set them and I have therefore threatened them with eviction from the free accommodation under my eaves which I have always provided them. Lazy little beggars.
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Maybe they’ve migrated to Castleton and Cairnbaan (though I’m told that bats rather than swallows are the best midge hunters)
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I think you may find that the drop in the swallow population is due to a massive storm in Africa during which thousands of swallows were blown off-course and died!
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This explains a puzzle. Noticed that the swallows were very late arriving this year (blown off course) and fewer than usual (losses in Africa). Thank you.
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Thanks for setting me straight. Poor things, now I feel so churlish for slagging them.
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Are you sure we are talking swallows here and not house martins?
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Can’t answer for the African disaster but, personally, finally learned the difference between Swallows and House Martins a few years ago (tails).
Our swallows seemed to arrive around 6 weeks later than usual this time.
Lynda
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