The last strawMy boyfriend recently went back home to Newcastle for a couple of weeks. The morning after he returned, he found the front door to be 'crawling'. On closer inspection, he found it to be covered in thousands of small flies. Something had obviously died near the front door without his flatmates realizing, become infested with maggots, which then hatched.
Later that week, he noticed that one of their fridges was taped up. On opening it, he found that something had obviously gone bad, leaked all over the bottom of the fridge and become mouldy. Rather than cleaning the fridge, his flatmates had decided to just tape the fridge closed and use his instead.
Lucky for me though coz now we have a lovely clean house together.
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Thu 20 Nov 2003, 15:21,
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Later that week, he noticed that one of their fridges was taped up. On opening it, he found that something had obviously gone bad, leaked all over the bottom of the fridge and become mouldy. Rather than cleaning the fridge, his flatmates had decided to just tape the fridge closed and use his instead.
Lucky for me though coz now we have a lovely clean house together.
maggots againAn old flatmate of mine was a keen fisherman. Soon after I moved out (luckily), he left a large pot of maggots, which were to be used as bait, in the sitting room with the top off. During the night, they all crawled up the sides of the pot, out of the pot and buried themselves into the carpet. A few days later, he had a very large fly infestation.
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maggots even again -maybe it was me who was the awful flatmate....but it was art college, and I had to come up with something..meaningful, deep even...it was the last night before having to present to the rest of the group.
Living with vegans at the time, I realised I had to go to some friends to create my greatest. I boiled a pot of maggots, they smelled - BAD, lots of frothy foam on top of the water, having to wash them well to rid the odour. I dried them, then started to thread them onto fishing wire, finishing off with PVA glue, to create a nice varnished look.
The next day people were trying on my necklaces admiring my handiwork, they thought they were wood, not necklaces of maggots but they did look good - honest...and who was I to tell them the truth
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Thu 20 Nov 2003, 16:29,
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Living with vegans at the time, I realised I had to go to some friends to create my greatest. I boiled a pot of maggots, they smelled - BAD, lots of frothy foam on top of the water, having to wash them well to rid the odour. I dried them, then started to thread them onto fishing wire, finishing off with PVA glue, to create a nice varnished look.
The next day people were trying on my necklaces admiring my handiwork, they thought they were wood, not necklaces of maggots but they did look good - honest...and who was I to tell them the truth