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Quote: Originally posted by Zorro01 on 29/6/2009

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Quote: Originally posted by Bernie47 on 28/6/2009

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Take up smoking, it keeps them away. 

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Hi
I'm just back from a weekend in the Galloway Forest, and boy, were they ferocious !

As well as taking up smoking, we tried moving the tents to the highest spot in the area to get the most from the breeze.

Serious suggestions - stay away from trees (difficult in a forest), stay as high as possible, make the barbie smoke too much, keep moving around, or as a last not-too-serious resort, tie a sweaty, chocolate and tomato sauce smeared child to a tree as a sacrificial offering. Preferably the child who has been moaning and whingeing since dawn. we tried that but ran out of children

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Well the saga of the Scottish Midge will continue.  No miracle cure or deterent but thank you for the laugh.  That's all I've heard all day anytime someone looked at my itchy blotchy face :-(

East Coast for us next time well until the end of July when the wee B's go away to store up energy for next years midge season!!!

This is weird... but can I ask.  Do they only like a certain type of person !  We met a lovely family next to us this weekend and they were eaten alive.  Not one of us got biten once

I got devoured this weekend, bites all over my arms and leg and the itching is driving me mad. OH hasn't got a single bite!

Body chemistry must be key. Or was it that I drink Stella and he drinks Strongbow?

Quote: Originally posted by McKay13 on 29/6/2009

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Well the saga of the Scottish Midge will continue.  No miracle cure or deterent but thank you for the laugh.  That's all I've heard all day anytime someone looked at my itchy blotchy face :-(

East Coast for us next time well until the end of July when the wee B's go away to store up energy for next years midge season!!!

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Lol! don't bet on it, oh has family thats stay in Lairg, and he spent a period of 6 months working there during the summer couple of years back, he ended up buying a face net, as said only thing that kept them away and even the locals were affected!

 

Jubilee TBA-
July - Blue Dolphin

I am English and live up here in East Scotland, and my partner and her son are both Scots. When ever camping on the west coast I get eaten every time and they are left alone. The midges practicaly drag me out from the tent to feast. But have found that taking anti hayfever tablets a few day prior help with the iritation , Mosqutoe coils burning in the tent and Jungle formula help matters. The midge net hats are also a great help, have tried most things.

But I am still Glad for this dreaded Midge, as it a natures way of protecting this most beautiful West Coast of Scotland, from too much tourisum and all the trapping that usually come with popular beauty spots. The Midges are keeping a huge number of folk away and so making it enjoyable for those mad few to enjoy the West Coast !!!!  Its a case of "who dares wins"

malcolm

Quote: Originally posted by East36 on 29/6/2009

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This is weird... but can I ask.  Do they only like a certain type of person !  We met a lovely family next to us this weekend and they were eaten alive.  Not one of us got biten once

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