http://www.highland-midge.co.uk/

I feel sorry for anyone foolish enough to marshall at Gorse Lea for the Manx. The weather just now is perfect for midge breeding by the time we get to the long hot sunny days of the Manx GP and the long sunny evenings the midge populaton will have exploded beyond all previous records.
You wouldn't catch me there for a pension.

I hear the pheasant has booked a holiday up at The Curraghs with the wallabies to get away from the midgies.

The swallows are happy :wink:

Have a look at the name of the research professor in the article linked below.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...111430.htm

Dere Sun,
It wus very nice too here frum ewe. Ime glad the peepul arr lukine aftir ewe in jappan. Pleez taik kerr with thos erthquaiks. We dont want ewe falline in two a hole - do wee?
Luv,
Mummy

cargo Wrote:I feel sorry for anyone foolish enough to marshall at Gorse Lea for the Manx. The weather just now is perfect for midge breeding by the time we get to the long hot sunny days of the Manx GP and the long sunny evenings the midge populaton will have exploded beyond all previous records. <snip>
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Mebbes wortha try... works for me... Johnson's Baby Lotion. I was told by an SAS chap that they use it in midge country (Scottish Highlands)

Also try Avons blue "Skin So Soft" Replenishing Dry Oil Body Spray !

They swore by it up the West Coast of Scotland last summer and it did seem to work

Oh thats interesting cos my Sandy is an Avon rep

I'll get her to order some up for the Gorse Lea marshals

If nothing else they'll smell "nice"

They sure will

Have used avon pink skin so soft body lotion for many years and would not go past it .

Am i going off topic ? :oops:

Spent a week touring around the west coast of scotland late last summer and found a few places advertising Avon ! 8)

So reckon it must work !

Oh and the views were magnificent !

Thanks for tip. We'll conduct scientific trials at the MGP. As you can see from the photo Cargo gets very upset by the midges.

Is this the right stuff Stella ?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Avon-Skin-so-Soft-...dZViewItem


Aparently there is a "citronella" content (sound familiar John? ) and thats what keeps the midges away.

Interestingly it's a trade secret that citronella is in there so it says on the Avon reps website..........ops now everyone knows
They call it parfum

Yup

Thats the very stuff !

Citronella ? ah that makes sense then..

Ding, Dong .... Avon calling :wink:

There is alarming news just in from Wales!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/6915459.stm

It is a long time since they have seen mosquitos in Wales.

Don, thats such a cheap joke!!

But any excuse to see a pic of that wonderful old timber crate.

Can I hear film theme??

MV

We are a weird bunch...........

In another place JF and I are on about RAF Leeming, Bulldogs and below Chipmunks

NON TT BOREDOM WARNING!!!

I guess I should declare my very dodgy background here!
Not ONLY was I an Air Training Corps cadet during the 50s,
and all that THAT implies (flying in a Percival Provost, no not
the jet!) BUT, my late father had an amazing life in aviation.
He was inspired to learn to fly by seeing a certain Mr De Havilland
and other pioneers at Hanworth Air Park.
(coincidentally, there is a memorial close to here in Andover where
De Havilland made HIS first flight in 1910!)

Dad learned to fly as a member of the Royal Flying Corps in 1917.
That was in a Caudron G3
http://www.airminded.net/caug3/caug3.html
and Avro 504K
http://www.gregorie.org/gregories/history/avro_504k.htm

He was an Air Gunner in Hawker Harts with 601 squadron.
He went on to be Hurricane Liason Officer to the Minstry of Supply during
the battle of Britain reporting to Lord Beaverbrook.

In 1926, he and a group of friends formed the Singapore Flying Club (later
the Royal Singapore Flying Club.
As an aside, he worked for Thomas Cook at the time and lived at the
famous Raffles hotel. That was when he raced (and heavily crashed!) a
Norton. Its in the genes!

He flew and flew in so many aircraft, I wouldnt know where to start.
It was also the aiviation celebs he knew personallythat made him an
interesting man to. Cierva,"Boom" Trenchard, "Stuffy" Dowding,Amy Johnson,
Jim Mollinson, the honourableMrs Victor Bruce
(also a motorcyclist and Morgan racer at Brooklands)
to name a veiw.

So, I grew up steeped in aviation myself and first flew in a Kings Cup
racing Tiger Moth (got a pic somewhere of me in school uniform)
and was taken to numerous post war air displays, especially Farnborough.
listen to.
I was "supposed" to be a Cranwell Cadet but became a hippy, discovered
women and didnt get enough quilifications! Then a got my first bike.....

I think I had better stop now.

Sorry if that was a bit boring!

MV

Funny how we tend to have a love of aircraft (not all... I know some who won't go near the things!). As a child, growing up on a croft in remote Caithness, I built all the Airfix kits and watched Daks fly over my house on their way to Dounreay (I think that's what started it)
When we got a TV, I found a series one summer... think I was about 13... where you learnt the theory of flying in 6 programmes. (All about ailerons!)
The last programme was an exam/competition, with a prize of something like a real flying lesson. My Dad came in halfway through and switched to some stupid news or sports programme, and to this day I have never forgiven him!
I still have my scrapbook with hand drawn diagrams of the first jet engines... how sad is that.
I didn't really discover bikes until I was about 16, when a boyfriend got a Norton... it was all downhill after that...

Not boring at all MV.............

The Chipmunk was the RAF's replacement for the Tiger Moth.
My dad always told me that he had flown Tiger Moths then I discovered his RAF service was about 9 months and he didn't get near a tiger moth spent most of the war driving a lorry delivering Spitfires apparently ??

Now back to midges..............

Not that I rate celebrity endorsements but apparently according to the Avon reps magazine former US President Jimmy Carter used Skin so Soft to ward off midges. Alledgedly reporters outside his Georgia home were being eaten alive by the little brutes yet they left Jimmy alone.
Also Mel Gibson used it during filiming for Braveheart to keep the little beggers away