- Bed bugs: a nightmare on legs | David Shariatmadari
My heart goes out to those New Yorkers battling bed bugs. As I know from experience, the nasty little critters are a living hellA shiver runs down my spine when I remember the day I finally found proof I was sharing my home with a large colony of bloodsucking insects. I didn't buy the idea that mosquitoes had suddenly infested Shepherd's Bush, or that we were living with fleas – after all, we had no pets. But the hard, red lumps that ran up and down my arms and around my ankles were a sign that something was up.Someone suggested bed bugs. The tiny things with plate-armour bodies and hairy antennae that live between the sheets in backpacker hostels? I supposed it was possible. Wikipedia, as so often in these situations, provided the answer (I had used it to identify a weevil that floated to the top of a pan of boiling rice the week before). It said that these Cimicidae gather in gaps between the wooden slats that support mattresses – or in any nook or cranny they can find (they love floorboards). But I gulped when I saw how big they were. I had been thinking of dust mites. You don't need a microscope to see bed bugs, though. Imagine a cross between a ladybird and a woodlouse, and you're in the right area.I ran upstairs and heaved the mattress off my bed. I had to unscrew part of the frame, and once I'd done that I saw them: huddled, fat, sleepy from their most recent meal. I reacted a bit like Kate Capshaw in that scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.They had colonised every gap between the slats and the frame, and I didn't really know what to do. Their waxy eggs were implanted in the rough-sawn ends of the slats, stubborn and seemingly indestructible. I hosed them down with steam from a wallpaper stripper. I sprayed them with Mr Muscle. Still they waddled aro _NULL_
- 28日の
the gazetteさんのライブすごく楽しかった！！盛り上がってた気がする！！セトリはfilth～から始まり、agony、shiver、蜷局、ruder、bath room、スワロウテイル～、cockroach、sugar pain、ogre、discharge、ソーシャル、calm envy、ライド、赤ワン、linda、disco、関東～(順不同)だとか演っていました
- 7/23日本武道館
0723 セトリ
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filth in the beauty
headache man
hesitating means death
shiver
a moth under the skin
ruder
赤いワンピース
蜷局
奈落
枯詩
d.l.n
leech
maggots
ogre
discharge
cockroach
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ride with the rockers
linda～candydive pinky heaven～
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関東土下座組合
☆best friends☆
- ROKI PARTY in 六本木KING♪♪♪
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