too true but it's the ones that need to swim over your eyeball; climb up your nose; checkout your throat; and invite all their friends that detract from the evenings entertainment.
Stalking In Scotland In the summer.
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ferretmanabu
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Best thing is to wear long sleeves and gloves, and get used to having a head net on all the time.
I have found the thermacell device quite useful if you're sitting in one place for a while.
Most of the time, I just tried and head out higher onto the open moor where there's a good breeze which equals no midges.
I have found the thermacell device quite useful if you're sitting in one place for a while.
Most of the time, I just tried and head out higher onto the open moor where there's a good breeze which equals no midges.
glenure
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I had a great stalk on a young stag on a clear, hot morning in July but the midgies where hell. I got on to a hump and lay down to take the shot but just could not shoot as the little (&^%^%$ just climbed in to every orifice (almost). Just had to give in. I would only stalk in a high wind or heavy rain if it stops they are ten times as bad!! Must use DEET which is also great for ticks.
hehe sorts the men oot from the boys
Look at it this way - you got more views, and we had more fun, than if you'd spelled the word correctly!
IME, repellent sprays and lotions work OK, Smidge being the best (but why not buy a selection: Skin So Soft, Deet, etc., as it's a small price to pay to have something that works when you've travelled a fair way to do something special?);
Don't rely on repellents alone, though: put physical barriers in the way. IMO a head net is vital -an all-round one is preferable to the "balaclava" type- and also some lightweight gloves. You may find the mesh frustrating at first, and the gloves hot, but if you take either off in a swarm of midges you'll want to put them back on immediately.
Have a great trip!
Fae Ardrossan tae Mallaig
And a alang the west coast
Tae that scurge caed the midgie
I hae played an unwillin host.
Noo Bushwear sell Deet
and ithers firby
Bit neen are a match
Fir the midgies on Sky
They tell a tale in Oban
and I'm sure that its true
That ae market day a midgie
Wis seen tae swalla a big heilin coo.
Boggy
And a alang the west coast
Tae that scurge caed the midgie
I hae played an unwillin host.
Noo Bushwear sell Deet
and ithers firby
Bit neen are a match
Fir the midgies on Sky
They tell a tale in Oban
and I'm sure that its true
That ae market day a midgie
Wis seen tae swalla a big heilin coo.
Boggy
Fae Ardrossan tae Mallaig
And a alang the west coast
Tae that scurge caed the midgie
I hae played an unwillin host.
Noo Bushwear sell Deet
and ithers firby
Bit neen are a match
Fir the midgies on Sky
They tell a tale in Oban
and I'm sure that its true
That ae market day a midgie
Wis seen tae swalla a big heilin coo.
Boggy
Now translate that into Danish!
BearStalker
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I don't know, but the first time I came to Scotland (I say came, because I am here, now for ever), I stood next to my wife, her in long sleeve shirts buttoned up tight and me in a short sleeve shirt and they had a feast on her and I never got bitten. Perhaps it is the reaction my body gives after I eat onions and garlic. My sweat gives off such an ammonia that they, and mosquitos, are not able to get close enough to land, much less bite.
As was mentioned, it is the females and I don't now of anyone who had a good night with a woman after eating onions and garlic.
As was mentioned, it is the females and I don't now of anyone who had a good night with a woman after eating onions and garlic.
BearStalker
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Uncle Buck
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Were all living in
thinking what happened to Torcall the piper...with the sporran as long as your arm !
Atb, Buck.
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