Posted on Sunday, May 7th, 2006 at 9:01 pm by Philip Devitt
Another weekend is over and we’re steam-rollering into the summer season — it’s not that I hate summer time, far from it, the longer, brighter days are a lot less miserable than the winter equivalent, its just that with the sun comes exhaustingly hot days, sleepless sweaty nights and a new wave of those little buzzing bleeders know as wasps.
There’s nothing worse than waking up to *that* humming noise, and listening intensly to try and figure out where it is and more importantly which way its heading. I know they are smaller than me and that the harm they could do would be short lived, its just a matter of the inconveniance of finding a slipper/newspaper/book and clearing the resultant mess made when its tiny body is rapidly introduced to my weapon of choice and the window.
Of course, wasps aren’t the only creature to come out at summer. I’ve also got to contend with ants, flying ants, arrogant little bleeders that stubbornly try to invade the house every year. Nothing stops ‘em, not bleach, not ant powder, possibly not even molten lava, though I’ve not got any actual lava to test the theory.
Speaking of hot places, the Australian government announced last 
week that they are to allow any holiday workers to apply for up to a years extension to their visa if they spend part of their time working within certain seasonal and agricultural sectors. Full details of the Australian visa extension scheme are available on the BBC’s website.