ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

With the after effects of the rain we have been haning a fly plague, put out a catcher and filled in two days !

Bob

Where do you get those Bob? Our A/C at work has broken down and the flies love the hot humid place with yummy food smells.

Bunnings and any half decent hardware store have them Heather

The truth of the matter ©


I was working in the garden,
like a naive, that was me.
And the sweat and I was partin,
for it was leaving me real free.

An the fly’s, were bloody lazy,
when they landed on my back.
Cause me shirt became real crazy,
with its colour now fly black,

And the sun was quite relentless,
shinning bright an rather hard.
And it seemed it couldn’t care less,
as I was workin in the yard.

And me sweat was flowing free'er,
in me eyes an down me back.
And fly's were getting worse'er,
crawling slowly down me back

An me trouser's was changin colour
from catching all me flamin sweat
an those fly's are full of valour
as they slowly crept down, you bet

when those fly's they all erupted
an they swarmed around me head
they should of been contented
But I farted there instead

Bill the old battler ©

Yeah at Bunnings H but you can make your own by cutting the top half off a one litre plastic soft drink bottle and inverting it in to the bottom half. Just put a bit of blood and bone mixed with water n the bottom.


Wish you could do the same for mossies

Did you post that poem in the wrong section Bill ?


Bob

Thank you Maureen and Bob.

Heather

well bob you was talking about fly's so I thought I'd join you lot, but I might have missed the spot.

bill the old battler

well bob you was talking about fly's so I thought I'd join you lot, but I might have missed the spot. but we used to put fly cake around the stables and dairies on the top of 44 gallon drums and it was deadly stuff for them flies. and a couple of drops of kero in your water tank and wells fixed the mossies but nothing seems to work on sand fly's ( biting little fellows they are)

bill the old battler