Jack Campin writes: | > Take plenty of Jungle Formula. I hear the midgies are | > especially ferocious this year! | | Hardly saw a midge the first couple of days. Then I tried playing | the flute outside at the end of the house around midnight, looking | across to the lights of Iona. Within a minute or two I was in the | middle of a cloud of them and had to beat it back indoors. My host | suggested I should have kept playing until they were *all* gathered | round and then marched off over the hill taking them with me.
I have an old Wizard of Id cartoon that I like to give to flutists. It has Rodney (the knight) coming up to the king and telling him that there's a fellow in the square with a flute who says he'll get rid of all the town's rats for $500. The king says to tell him that we don't have rats. Rodney says "We will if he stops playing." To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html