If I leave my wheelie bin open tonight, will all the sickening baby flies die? GREENSLEEVES DO NOT READ

[colditz]

I saw one, right near the top, right near me, I feel absolutely violated, it is November and they are all supposed to be dead. I am still debating whether or not to throw out my (very nice) coat in case one is on it somewhere.

Please help me get rid of the revolting bastards, I can't even type the word, please don't, it's like Franny and Loofahs. They have been there all summer, putting the bins out makes me want to cry, exp sometimes does it for me if I beg but I hate to ask someone else to put my own bins out.

And i can't google in case there is pictures.

fly spray. clean out your bin thoroughly when it's empty. you can get fly paper type things especially for wheelie bins.

Open bin lid slightly, insert nozzle of flyspray can, spray until can is empty?

Are they real houseflies - are maggotos present? Or are they fruit flies?

Could you bear to get DH to empty them out, put a load of bleach and boiling water in them and get dh to reload them?

Horrible thing happened to me yesterday am. Only one down here, and I heard this buzzing sound. Followed it round the kitchen and it was a full blown fly. A very dozy full blown fly, but fully blown, nonetheless. It sat on the swimming timetable on our kitchen table. I got a clean plastic container, thinking I could quickly cover it, remove the container and the timetable it was reading, and release it outside.

Well, it was so effing dozy and I was so effing tired, that I missed, and spliced the think in half.

Bleeeeeeeeugh!!!

Incidentally, why would they be on your coat?

The thing, even!

I will check out wheelie bin cleaners
but I am in the Shires, so might be a bit provincial for them

I flyspray and dump bleach regularly, they seem to be round near the top.

ohhhhhhhhhhhh

They might. For the same reason arachnophobes think loofahs can jump across a room to land in their hair.

I leaned over the bin to push something in.

No wheelie bin cleaners in Oxford. What a fab idea!

no wheelie bin cleaners within 20 miles of here

They might still come your way though - they do rounds on different days following the bin men.

Sounds like a business oppurtunity!

Does anyone have a link to them?

Buda, how was your duvet day?

I agree Colditz the buggers should be dead by now. I had some in the bin in summer - fortnightly collections here, is just wrong

and used boiling water. Boil kettle and pour liberally all over inside of bin as soon as collection men have been. They do all die. Apparently if you tie the bags before putting them in bin it helps, I have catfood tins in mine and that seems to be the main problem. I refuse to wash out catfood tins...

My main issue with the nasty things is when they lay eggs on the actual catfood before my cat finishes it. That is disgusting. The you have to throw away the food, which means they grow into in the bin. Nasty.

Even bought a special lidded cat dish which senses her approach, fifteen quid it cost me, and the little bastard sneaked in a minute gap in the edge of the lid, on the first day!!!!!!!

I felt very, very scared at its cleverness...

Don't waste money on one of those then.

Non-eventful thanks 2sugars! Having another one today in fact as he still has the cold and was supposed to have swimming today and there was a note in last week's newsletter that children should be well enough to partake in all lessons including swimming so have kept him home again. Was up in the night again trying to persuade him to blow his nose. He hates doing it for some reason.

Well done Buda, I am so anti school it is probably going to rub off on Ds,(bad parent) but I wholeheartedly support duvet days!!!

I didn't say that, if Ds asks

Ah, poor lad. And poor you - Columbia, for a proper, self-indulgent duvet day it has to be just you, heating on high, television in bed (watching rubbish of course, hot toddies, long 'phone calls.... in fact just the sort of thing to enjoy when you're perfectly well.

I stand poised with kettle full of boiled water and bleach, waiting for H to bring bins back. The worst ones to clean out are those Brabantia touch bins. They have two holes at the bottom, to prevent a vacuum being formed when you remove the line. No chance of giving that a good bleachy soak.