insects are all around us

we certainly have our fair share of insects here. screen doors are a neccessity, but it's just that we didn't have so many large crawlers in scotland. from mosquitoes (incredibly I've still to be bitten) to dragonflies; cicadas to antler beetles (the current craze for young boys is collecting their top trumps cards); large spiders to grasshoppers; and of course, cockroaches. yeh - cockroaches.

I was confronted with one this week when I got up at night and it scared the hell out of me - especially as it ran up the wall when I tried to catch it. jesus - they climb walls. nasty, nasty stuff. I'm not phobic or anything - I just don't like sharing my house with anything so agile and that moves that fast. it's only the first we've seen in 6 months though, so hopefully shutting the toilet window will keep them out. as a precautionary measure we bought a mouse.