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The wasp man came yesterday and said we got the award for the angriest wasps. Which, thank you wasp man, but it's an award I really didn't want. I was considering spraying them myself with wasp killing foam but realised I was really underestimating how high the wasps were considering you have to go up four steps to the front door, plus, didn't have a ladder. So, wasp man, it was. He turned up in his full beekeeping gear and sprayed them and horrified me even more by saying the slight bulge in the toilet ceiling was part of the nest and that if we'd have left it the wasps would have quadrupled by October and probably burst through the ceiling. He took a video of the angry wasps to put on his FB so I'll have to keep an eye out for that. And ha, he's put it up on FB, you can see it here.

Yesterday we also went to Newcastle to the limb centre yet again. Thankfully, that time it was a short appointment just to make sure James' new leg was working for him. Though, it started a bit frantic as we realised that his appointment was actually half an hour before we thought and we had 30 minutes to get to Newcastle, which is doable if traffic is okay, but just. In the end we arrived a minute late which was fine.

After that, we bought Subway salads for dinner and ate them on Newcastle quayside looking up at the Tyne bridge, home via the horse fields where I got to stroke some ponies and then to the doctors so I could get my B12. Then back for wasp man.

This morning it was lashing down with rain so it felt like a cinema day -- and yeah, I know, to us any day can be a cinema day. We went to see Blinded by the Light and enjoyed it lots. I loved how it was a mix of Bruce Springsteen music and 80s music and fashion that reminded me of my childhood. Despite some uncomfortable moments it was nicely feelgood and just what I was in the mood for.

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so many wasps! I'm glad no one got stung before the wasp man arrived

Oh wow that sounds like a horror film!

Aww yay for petting ponies

Cinema days are good! We had some of the rain to which was crazy cause it just stopped at the end and went sunny

Blinded by the Light is the movie I have been most eager for! Glad it was enjoyable.

UGH, I'm glad Wasp Man took care of that for you, because, yeah bulging ceiling is not on.

wow, this is some horror movie fodder right here! i'm glad you're succesfully de-wasped and nobody burst through your ceiling D:

Yikes! I'm glad the wasps have been neutralized pre-bursting.

Also glad that the new leg is (finally?!) suiting James!

Sounds like it definitely was a good idea to get a professional to get rid of the wasps. Wasps falling down from the ceiling when you're on the loo would have been horrible!

I take it James' leg is FINALLY fitting and working like it should?

Yikes at all those wasps! Like everyone else has already said, it sounds like the set up for some horror flick. I mean, the idea of that wasp nest bursting inside the house and all. DDDDD:

Yays for petting ponies

I liked Blinded by the Light a lot more than I liked Yesterday (which is a movie that just set my teeth on edge despite my being a lifelong fan of the Beatles.) Funnily enough, I'm familiar (but not a huge fan of) Springsteen. Though I did see him at a concert several years ago (I was accompanying a cousin who had an extra ticket) and had a good time.

the slight bulge in the toilet ceiling was part of the nest and that if we'd have left it the wasps would have quadrupled by October and probably burst through the ceiling

WHAAAAAT