Geektastic: Maybe one day Screwfix will open here...!

I use Black Flag. It seems to work.

• two magnets for $253 each. I guess the extra expense is the sparkly plastic tube. Comes with special "opposing magnets" with none of those pesky visible magnetic fields.
  
  
• 3 balloons for $50, that have painted eyeballs on them
  
  
• A $95 "Japanese award winning" balloon with an owl face. Same claim made through lots of dubious traders, but no-one world-wide says who awarded what.
  
  
• various lengths of Mylar ribbons, that "combines the suns rays and the wind to move, flash and crackle - the birds find it scary and unsettling so keep well away."
  
  
• "Curb powder", which contains aluminum, ammonium & sulphate

The same neighbours who forced me to call noise control last week decided that a NYE party going from 6pm to 7am was a good idea.

We didn't call noise control because... NYE. But seriously folks, a bit of respect? Stop at 3am would've been good.

Eva888: Teenage flies that haven’t learned to bang themselves on the window so you can let them out and instead they zap around the middle of the room. Mortein seems to invigorate them more than kill them. I have four which have taken up permanent residence since Xmas day and doing my head in.

The odd one we get prefers flying around in between me and the TV

Eva888: Teenage flies that haven’t learned to bang themselves on the window so you can let them out and instead they zap around the middle of the room. Mortein seems to invigorate them more than kill them. I have four which have taken up permanent residence since Xmas day and doing my head in.

Bung:

Eva888: Teenage flies that haven’t learned to bang themselves on the window so you can let them out and instead they zap around the middle of the room. Mortein seems to invigorate them more than kill them. I have four which have taken up permanent residence since Xmas day and doing my head in.

The ones that zig zag around in the centre of the room are known as lesser house flies Fannia Canicularis. They don't want to go out. Pyrethroids in fly spray take longer to kill flies in warm weather so they may be dead flies that just don't know it.

freitasm:

 

The same neighbours who forced me to call noise control last week decided that a NYE party going from 6pm to 7am was a good idea.

 

We didn't call noise control because... NYE. But seriously folks, a bit of respect? Stop at 3am would've been good.

 

this is when you crank your music at 8am as payback.

On the talk of flies, we've had people to stay, so more dishes etc laying around than normal so we've had an influx of flies. I was at Mitre Ten recently and saw a tennis racket shaped fly swat. With an electric option. I'm not gonna lie, it's oddly satisfying to swat them, then electrocute them. I'm not sure what this says about me!

And they've all gone. 

mudguard:

On the talk of flies, we've had people to stay, so more dishes etc laying around than normal so we've had an influx of flies. I was at Mitre Ten recently and saw a tennis racket shaped fly swat. With an electric option. I'm not gonna lie, it's oddly satisfying to swat them, then electrocute them. I'm not sure what this says about me!

And they've all gone.