Ah! Wasps. They’s different.
I was at an Ag show a couple of years ago, sitting at a table outside the beer tent while TFD went in to fetch the beers, when a wasp landed on my wrist.
‘Keep calm, stay still, and it will fly off’, I told myself. It did, and flew straight to the back of my neck and stung me there. It bloody hurt.
’ Oh bugger!’ I shouted, loudly, in shock.
And the man at the next table (who had no idea about the wasp) gave me a very odd look, got up, and walked away.
Shun these types for their lack of insight or imagination, TFM. Pfft!
Soo xxzzzz
Gin, Soo
Deffo Gin
I once sat onna wasp & spent the next hour with half an onion in me britches
Austrian Old Wives Remedy…
Carinthia.xx
Old wives who knew their chemistry. Wasp venom is alkali, so anything acidic (like onion) is good.
https://www.rentokil.ie/blog/10-ways-to-treat-insect-stings-at-home/
I scrounged half a lemon from the chap behind the bar and held that to my neck. Very effective.
Well it was Grandma at the Gasthaus who applied it to my nether regions & told me to keep the onion in my knickers ! I was trying to decide if keeling over was likely
It’s all very well wearing one’s ‘Accident Set’ , but the smell of onion wasn’t too great… 
Carinthia.xx
I wear one of those every day, considering my track record.
Morning, all.
Soo xx
I evict spiders wivvan pint glass anna piece of card. I always worry about breaking them if I pick them up by hand.
Yesterday a wasp was taking a Concerted Interest in my toes. Usually when I tell them to go away they do, but not this one. Eventually I did, and came back wiv the Electric Executioner, by which time it had departed.
(Bee-stings meanwhile are acidic, so bicarb or similar.)
My technique, if you can call it that, is to hold one hand open in front of the spider and gently nudge it’s legs with the other hand to persuade them to move onto the open one, then quickly cup the nudging hand over the top. No harm done.
The only time I ever actually picked one up with my fingers was an accident. I was rushing around and saw what I thought was a huge piece of fluff on the floor and I picked it up quickly without really looking. That led to a dead spider and a hand covered with spider juice, even I didn’t like that very much!
Morning all from a spider sanctuary
And asthma central!
Bacon butty makings on the side
I am wheezing too much to do them myself
I like my bacon crispy thanks
I’m afraid any fryity will have to wait until I can get some Very Long Tongs. From about Greenland, ideally.
Maybe someone else will take pity on us pore starving cellarati huddled by the open fridge door…
I have a very warm cat snuggling under my arm.
Purring.
Warmly.
ETA: not any more, Comfort having triumphed over Affection
Are you still waiting for your breakfast, Twellsy?
It seems a bit late now but never mind, leave it to me, I may not be much of a cook but I can manage a crispy bacon sandwich. I’ll have one too, while I’m at it.
And yes, I won’t forget the sparrer.
Or the fish…
Thank you
I have been called by ye quack and HAVE to have a corvid test
Waaaaaaaaiiiiiiiilllllllll!!!
Shouldn’t that be
Squaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark
?
Oops! Sorry Fishy, I didn’t spot you in the queue. Another bacon sarnie coming up.
Well you are in every possible risk group, Twellsy. Have you had one before? Has Mr Wells had one?
Unpleasant, but you have survived far worse.
Double up on the crispy bacon, TFM
Carinthia.xx
Not in itself a good reason for testing. imo, anyway.
Tcha, this testing is dangerous: the more they do it the more the case numbers rise. Testing obviously spreads it! Burn the testers!
Pore Twellsy. But the quack will be able to tick his little box and get on with treating your wheezes.