We have had only one housefly this year, which got in through the bathroom window when we had that brief early ‘summer’ – nor any last year either, now that I come to think about it.
A vague concern began to grow over the past week however – tiny, transparent flies, the sort that float like motes, started to appear. Is this a sign of something gently rotting, unspotted, somewhere in the house?
Well the rot, if rot it be, is everywhere, & not just the result of a slapdash approach to housekeeping.
My neighbours invited me to share their wonder at a spiders web busily being spun in the gap between their shed & clothes post. They had carefully removed one from the same spot the day before, relocated to the shrubbery over the other side of the wall – but here it was again.
Although still rudimentary, there for such a short time, it had already snared a rich crop of these same small flies – I had to put my glasses on to be sure that they were not, in fact, eggs
