Last night I managed three hours sleep and five hours searching the bedroom and the internet trying to find out what was biting my feet and ankles.
Alternatively go bite Pecora Nera
For sure it wasn’t a mosquito, I know what a mosquito bite looks like. I have plenty of them on my arms.
These things were ankle biters.
My google search narrowed it down to black fly, papatacci, or … cat fleas 😱
I used a complete bottle of mosquito repellent on me the bed and the floor and tried to go back to sleep.
It didn’t work
At 4:30 I awoke to another three bites and an interesting article on how to bomb your house to eradicate fleas.
I was hooked, there was also several articles on why you should not bomb your house… but I was in no mood to read them.
4 should do it
This morning at my local shop, using my fabulous Italian I asked for information.
Me: I need bomb house for beasts.
Shop Assistant: Pardon?
Me: Look leg
Shop Assistant: oooohh! How big is your house?
Me: This big, pointing to his warehouse
Shop Assistant: You need 3 bombs
Me: I buy 4
Shop Assistant: Remove all your pets from the house before using the bombs
Me: Really! No possible leaving cats in house, solve 2 problems?
Flea bitten Scabby Cat
I tried to persuade MishMash to enter the house and watch the bombs going off, but she said she would tell Mrs Sensible what I was up to.
Your in trouble when Mrs Sensible returns
Mrs Sensible is currently visiting ‘the family’ in Sicily and MishMash knows she might have some reservations about me bombing the house.
Run Pecora Nera Run!
I detonated the bombs starting at the top of the house and quickly exited through the front door.
Currently I am sat in a bar drinking Gin and Tonic and waiting for the dust to settle.
I only had 1 or 2
Oh! if you want to know the name of the bars where they don’t measure the gin, message me and I will send you a list.
To date I don’t know if the bombing worked, but I do know I have time for another Gin and Tonic
Happy Days
Englishman in Italy 
Best of British luck, with those Italian biting beasts.
Boris Johnson? OMG.
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Boris!!! All is lost
In an hour I will go and inspect the devastation of my house. Lord knows what the bombs do
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OMG, that is too funny, not the fleas of course, but your description!
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I messaged Mrs Sensible to tell her they were killing me.
she asked “Who is killing you, call the Carabiniere”
It’s probably all the carabiniere are good for ‘allegedly‘
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I can’t wait to hear if they worked, and what, if anything is left standing in your house!
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Such devastation, dead flies, donkeys, spiders and bugs everywhere, ok I might be exaggerating about the amount of spiders, but you get the gist.
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Cute story. Those itty bitty fleas are the worst one..They make you itch pretty bad.
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I hope I have managed to exterminate them with the bombs.
If tonight I manage to sleep, I will be very happy
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those biting sesame seeds are the worst. last year I went through a battle Royale with them.
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Hi Ksbeth, Unfortunately I had to resort to chemical warfare and nuke them.
I am not convinced they won’t return
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me too!
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Fingers crossed that the bombs worked and you can sleep again.
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I now have a little arsenal of bombs.
This is true trench warfare, may the victor remain un bitten
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Sounds like serious business… 😉
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