on saturday i was tidying up my flat, which is a rare occurrence, and i opened all the windows in the lounge, which in this weather is also fairly unusual. i was switching from room to room, and when i returned to the lounge i noticed a load of black dots around the windows. i went to inspect further and found hundreds of these buggers. ok, it wasn't hundreds, it was probably about fifty, but 'tens of these buggers' doesn't sound as impressive. either way, there was a hell of a lot. i'm not sure if there is a nest, or if they were just having some kind of ladybird fiesta, but it took me hours to get rid of them. ok, it wasn't hours, it was more like thirty minutes, but that's still a lot longer than i usually spend shooing ladybirds out of my windows. i would have taken a better quality picture, but i was too tired from all the shooing to worry about getting the settings correct. it's been a couple of days and i haven't seen any return yet, but i am really reluctant to open my windows again in case another swarm start crawling in.

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on saturday i was tidying up my flat, which is a rare occurrence, and i opened all the windows in the lounge, which in this weather is also fairly unusual. i was switching from room to room, and when i returned to the lounge i noticed a load of black dots around the windows. i went to inspect further and found hundreds of these buggers. ok, it wasn't hundreds, it was probably about fifty, but 'tens of these buggers' doesn't sound as impressive. either way, there was a hell of a lot. i'm not sure if there is a nest, or if they were just having some kind of ladybird fiesta, but it took me hours to get rid of them. ok, it wasn't hours, it was more like thirty minutes, but that's still a lot longer than i usually spend shooing ladybirds out of my windows. i would have taken a better quality picture, but i was too tired from all the shooing to worry about getting the settings correct. it's been a couple of days and i haven't seen any return yet, but i am really reluctant to open my windows again in case another swarm start crawling in.

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