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weepingfoxfury · 2 months

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"A home without spiders and dust belongs to someone whose hands have yet to find that moment of stillness and understanding " - Frenella Peabody

When I first moved into my home all those years ago, it had been uninhabited for some time. There were flies in abundance. My immediate reaction was to reach for and put up sticky fly trap paper.

I sat day after day drinking my coffee, watching insects fall foul of this enticing, swinging graveyard, and thought no more about it other than how nice it was without being mithered by flies.

Then, one day, the bulb went in the kitchen light. I got a fresh one and stood on the table and started to take the old bulb out. It was at that point that the fly trap got stuck to my hair and face.

I was horrified and mortified. Now I was up close and personal with the dead and the dying, their legs and wings writhing close to my left eye. I reached up with my left hand, released the pin that held this monstrosity up and stepped shakily back onto my chair and then onto the floor.

Once down I stood, scissors in hand, and cut the fly trap out of my hair and managed, with some heat, to ease the paper off my skin.

Never again!

Now I just sit and look at the kitchen windows, drink my coffee and smile as I watch the spiders getting fat on the flies that keep barrelling in to bounce against the glass ... and I think to myself that Mithered By Flies would make a great album title ...

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weepingfoxfury · 2 months

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"You can tread on as many cracks in the pavement as you wish, if you've already poked all the bears." - Frenella Peabody

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday ... or is it Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday in Tuesdayville? Either way, I'm still full of sleep, head already thinking towards next weekend and resenting the bloody time change.

Grrrrrrr and Aarrgghh and I need more coffee! ...

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