Unsurprisingly, we suffer from a lot of flies and can’t use flyspray because of Ludvig and Harry the Lovebird who are both sensitive to chemical sprays.
I therefore try natural fly deterrents, and when I saw the lemons and clove, I was quite excited as lemons are one thing we have a very plentiful supply of.
I didn’t have any cloves though and I had to buy some. I was delighted to find that the literal translation of the Spanish name for cloves is ‘odorous nails’.
However as delightful as that might be – the end result was unimpressive with I think an increase of flys coming in to see what the odorous smell is.
It reminded me when Ian designed a snail repellent which was like a strip of very fine spikes which was supposed to put the snails off going over it. It transpired though that the spikes perhaps were a little too fine as the snails appeared to very much appreciate the tummy tickler we had put down for them.
Horace Has a Haircut
and Horace had had a haircut. Unfortunately he had a seizure going to the vet and we had a bit of a debate in the vets about what we can or should do. They were suggesting we could trim him at home but that’s just impossible and while I can snip bits off while he’s asleep, I could never do a proper job. They also didn’t want to trim him that particular day which we also debated for a bit – eventually the vet who specializes in seizures and who oversaw Charlie’s treatment got involved and said it was OK for them to trim Horace that day and has given us anti seizure medication – the same as we had for Charlie to give Horace before he goes to the vet next time. He has to take it for 5 days before.
It’s clearly a bit of a problem if we ever need to take Horace to the vet urgently, but we’ll just have to cross that bridge when we come to it.
I had tried just snuggling him down in duvet rather than in a carrier, which has worked in the past – but not this time.
Anway – here he is looking handsome after his haircut 🙂 – and how we know it’s warm as he’s not under the duvet!
