Order of the Bath

Now it is not my place to question God’s creation, but sometimes I wonder why some things exist.

We have just come back from holiday (that is why it was quiet on here) and the only thing that marred a very enjoyable break were certain insects. First, mosquitoes and midges—I was bitten on the back of my right hand and it swelled up so I could no longer close it. This took well over a week to go down. We were both bitten in other places and the presence of these beasts stopped us from enjoying the mild evenings sitting in the gardens.

Then there were the wasps. Fortunately only a couple of times they messed up a lunchtime picnic. Perhaps it is an irrational fear since childhood but I can’t stand the things. I thought they were attracted to sweet things like jam, fizzy drinks and beer but these seemed to love salami and smelly cheese. We also had hornets, huge ones, but fortunately they weren’t interested in us, but they insisted on getting into the car every time a door was opened.

Finally when we got home the house was infested with flies—big black slow ones. By the time we arrived most of them were dead but everything needed to be cleaned from flyspots and the corpses cleaned up; there must have been several hundred. We can only suppose that something had died under the floor but there was no smell.

So, please God, perhaps if you are doing a post project review, could you reconsider the need for these creatures?

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