bed bugs are taking over

I think you'd be unlucky in the extreme?

My wife agrees and has just made a big joke of examining the seats for me. I am sitting down on a seat. This is a big deal.

#pray4nurseholiday

#TeamNurse

bowls of water with washing up liquid in

thanks for this tip (for fleas). Not rid of them completely yet, but the trap works. Trying food grade DE too.

In Paris, crossing fingers and feeling sharky about bedbugs. Have already asked the missus to send a set of clothes and the steamer to a community workshop I go to often, and I plan on steaming everything before taking it home to wash and dry. Paranoid, I hear you scoff? I have a newborn and a partner recovering from major surgery, I’m comfortable being paranoid about this.

On the issue of cold killing bedbugs, seems the U of Minnesota recommends 5 days at -5C.
https://extension.umn.edu/biting-insects/bed-bugs#traveling-and-bed-bugs-48760

Have you seen any signs of them yet?

I was planning on going to either paris roubaix or the tour next year but the bed bug chat is putting me off.

was in Paris a few weeks ago and I saw no sign of them, despite checking religiously. Parisians didn't seem particularly bothered by them

We got those sticky flea traps that have a very dim incandescent bulb in them above a sticky sheet. The bulb is supposed to mimic body temp and attract the jumpy cunts. Not sure it is an effective method of eradication, but they worked very well as a means of knowing what else was working. We just kept trying different things until the traps stopped filling up. Best solution was of course treating the cats, but even that took a few trial and error attempts as we've found that what used to work at our old flat, doesn't work here. Not sure if that's because the fleas are coming from different animals outside, or if that's even a thing. But then even the two main brands of spray seemed to work differently.

Fleas have different tolerance in different locations, and at different times, I think.

Makes sense 👍🏻, handy to have all the different stuff still around then.

Partner has been getting bitten on public transport a lot and ended up on antibiotics twice now with infected bites that look very red/swollen and end up covering area 5-8cm across the first one was all blistered and not pretty to look at. no evidence of any bugs/fleas at home which is uncarpeted and having just moved in is mostly boxed and bagged stuff from 7 months ago or my stuff from the last week where we were both staying.
A lot of the flat is new apart from the kitchen and all floors are new stripped and painted/oiled boards, no skirting and everything is wiped/dusted on unpacking.
Obviously a bit paranoid after reading this thread but does anyone have any recommendations for a spray she can put on her legs when using the bus/tube? she only uses it a couple of times a week but really doesn’t want a course of antibiotics every month for a bite.

Noob! ;)

It's mad. Events on all over Amsterdam. Not just parties but like seminars and stuff too if you're a producer or dj or whatever.

Should really make the effort to get over there

Book early (or make Dutch friends). Amsterdam is already expensive to stay in and it's super busy during ADE.

There are mutterings of boomtown next year, maybe the year after

Never heard of it. In the 13 seconds of looking at their website it looks to me like a British Burning Man or something

Usually a mad lineup

Could well just be mosquitos - there are quite a few about (including the London underground mosquito - Culex pipiens molestus) which will bite people, especially just before winter when they're about to go into hibernation. Either way the boots bug spray tends to be ok, and the ones containining icaridin/picaridin or IR3535 tend to be less overpoweringly smelly than DEET/citronella based ones.

Just looking. Not many I'm familiar with.

Beardyman, Confidence Man, Prodigy, wait Cypress fucking Hill?, Mungo Hifi (the bicycle song guys?), Warmduscher... ok, there's quite a few familiar names actually, just not the big headliner types. Interesting.

My youngest is off to Paris on an A Level art trip this weekend for a few days. Having read this thread I’m now considering a quarantine protocol on return!

What simple precautions should I take? Hot wash all clothes as soon as they get back? Luggage steam cleaned? We had fleas in the house from the cats once and that was bad enough, not sure how I’d cope if these fuckers made a home here.

Thanks, though the doctor looked quite alarmed at the blistering which looked like multiple bites in a line the first time it happened which suggested something like a bed bug
She is a mosquito magnet though i haven’t been bitten yet...

It was amazing. Dave Clarke presents with British Murder Boys was incredible. The two STOOR nights too, Sunday was actually the better night of the two, which I don't think anyone expected given the calibre of Saturday's lineup.

Definitely go back for it next year

Bonus. Hotel had no bed bugs

Didn't camp then?!

No. I would have done but Paul said absolutely fucking not! 🤣