I usually get absolutely eaten alive, but this year camping in kielder it wasn’t half as bad as previous years.
Worst place I've ever had them is Kielder. Stayed there on the way up to the highlands and it was horrendous. The highlands was actually totally fine.
Those midge machines in Kielder are disgustingly covered in the little dead bastarz.
Worst I ever had was in N Wales. Abbing down a dank gully dressed in shorts, no shirt after climbing a route on Gist Ddu. Thee ropes jammed and we were just wiping the horrors off of ourselves. It was like a disgusting midge and sweat paté. It got so bad that we abandoned the ropes and came back another day to recover them.
Also remember that Smidge was partly developed from the fact that Bog Myrtle keeps them away. Indeed the smell is similar.
Our old garden had bog Myrtle across the back fence - and noticeably fewer midges in that area.
I usually get eaten to bits, but...
Last night I was at loch of lowes down the road from Moffat, surrounded by a cloud of the buggers and didn't get bitten at all, not once. I don't know if they're the 'wrong kind' of midges, or if my sons Lynx perfume, sorry, body spray, kept them from biting but it was a Huge relief.
up in the top end of Kielder this week and they only seem to have come out the last couple of days. doing a cheeky lap this morning up some logging tracks, didnt expect the wagons that early but they were loading so I waited until they were done and the swarms came out.
horrible little buggers
Nope, still nothing - had a warm, sunny day, there’s little wind and a bog / standing water nearby - been out cutting the grass in shorts and t-shirt and nothing biting
We used to go camping in the Lakes all the time when I was a kid. My Dad never got bitten by midges.
He smoked a pipe though.
I just bought one of these for Glencoe.
From the video -
I don't like repellents because they taste terrible
Maybe he should stop trying to drink the stuff 😆
Out in the garden again this evening, for about ten minutes. B#####rds.
@tj, the bats will have to adapt to the new order. Adapt or die, sorry.
Hmm 🤔, I sound a bit harsh. However I do not want a Venn diagram where midges and I intersect.
