Penny and Fred

Bring it on….

There’s nothing quite like sharing your breakfast with a cockroach…  Fortunately for Fred, he had already finished with his tub of yoghurt when the cockroach decided to move in.  Now, these are no ordinary cockroaches.  Cambodian cockroaches are big enough to knock over a small child and boy, can they move.

To get you up to speed…  This has not been our first encounter with the ‘cockies’, this has been going on for days…  It started with one in the hall of the office, then 3 or so in the office bathroom, then yesterday while I was diligently working on a funding submission, one went running from one side of the office to the other.  All of these precious ‘cockies’ have come to their demise at the hands of the trusty office “Forms” folder.  Fred and I have been taking turns at throwing the folder on them, but the one in the staff room yesterday afternoon gave me a run for my money and when I missed him the first few times, he turned to charge and I almost soiled myself…

It’s not that I have anything against these creatures and I know that they are completely harmless,  I don’t fear them, I just fear them running over my feet or up my leg.  I apologise to anyone and everyone experiencing a ‘visual’ of that right now…  The other things that makes me a little unsettled is that awful smell they produce after being squashed - maybe Fred and I should think about bottling “eau de cockie”, it could be the new ‘mace’, scaring perps off all around the world.  We could make millions, no!  What women wouldn’t want a bottle of ‘eau de cockie’ in their purse for protection?

So, the battle between man and cockroach continues…  Every time I think we have them pipped, another one appears.  I wasn’t too concerned about them, because we have only found them on the bottom floor, but Fred tells me he killed a baby ‘cockie’ in our bedroom just this morning, yes, our bedroom, yes, this morning.  Now that’s a declaration of war in my books.  So today, I am going to google ways to deter these little darlings away from ‘my space’, because I just don’t have the heart (or nerves) to keep throwing oversized office folders at them.

I’ll be keeping you posted on the methods I’ll be testing and my success/failure rate.  I’m open to suggestions if anyone has any grand ideas.

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