Dear LPG, 

I wonder if this is a situation that any other pensioner found themselves in during that scorching summer spell last year?  It is funny how quickly the weather changes. I bet I was not the only one who spent quite a bit of the past summer complaining about how hot it was. There was a need to open the windows, which helped a bit but brought us other problems.

I don't know if there are any official figures on the subject, but did you notice that there have been a few more things flying around during our hot summer spell this year?

I don't think that I am the only pensioner affected who might agree that, at our age, we are usually too old to start finding a bit of newspaper, cloth or the flyswatter that we have not used since it got hot last year, so during the day we learn to live with the odd one that won't go away. Still, finding one that decides that your bedroom is the perfect place to spend the night can be really annoying when you are exhausted, we all know that fly violence usually ends up with you smashing some long-cherished trinket or other, if not your knee or elbow.

There is the fly killer, but that leaves a smell and the problem of where the little bug ends up, and turning the light out and opening the windows could be the answer unless the reflection of your night light or telly attracts a couple of others.

We should be happy that there are a few more flies around due to the hot weather. Today's children are indeed missing out on such wide varieties of little flying insects we older people knew when we were young.

Many of us can't see them clearly anymore, but when you turn the light out, you can hear the buzzing.
This is my earliest experience this year, and I suppose I could leave it to fly around, but I can't help thinking that as we get older, we snore more, and our mouths are more likely to be open during our sleep cycle.

I am writing this after the first night that I have been affected this year, but this thought put me off from sleeping, so I looked on the internet for some solutions.

They are too late for this year, but perhaps worth considering in case we have another scorching spell next summer. 

CL, Camberwell

CL offers some preventions that may come in useful for next summer…

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