@AnneOfCleavage sorry to hear about the birthday, will be interested to hear what you think of Chichester, which campus are you looking at?
@FoolsAssassin that's awful for your family with the flooding, its horrendous. I am increasingly worried about climate change.
@ealingwestmum regardless of climate change concerns I still think its important that young people have the opportunity to travel and experience other cultures, society needs people from different countries to be able to work together effectively, well done to her.
@Shimy we're away from home for a few days and haven't had flying ants here yet but we do get masses of them at home and had several huge ant nests in the garden and block paving again this year, hope they've gone by the time we get back.
@Fferny1 we find strawberries the worst for attracting fruit flies into the kitchen, we compost most stuff but strawberry stems go straight in the main bin and are kept in the fridge before eating.
For all sorts of insect infestations we have been using diatomaceous earth, its a ground up mineral, it dries out insects, safer to have around pets than chemicals (we have cats). I had an ants nest in my rockery which was killing the plants there and it got rid of them, I also use it when the compost bin gets too full of flies.