Are you a mosquito magnet?

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Just read this in The Times.

It was late 2020. The New England Journal of Medicine had results on a new kind of vaccine. It used a bit of genetic code — RNA — to trick the body into making a bit of the Covid virus so when the real thing turned up, it knew how to destroy it. The main...

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In mainland France this year:
7 cases of locally transmitted Chikungunya
4 cases of locally transmitted Dengue
30 cases of locally transmitted West Nile Virus

Tiger mosquitoes are now effectively endemic. There's also in my area of Switzerland, but thankfully not disease...

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Well. Goodbye Dolly (Parton)....

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OnPrem - still working on that. We've a few deep PERFORM ... IN PROGRAM...

It wasn't me. A bad boy did it and ran away. I've got his name... ...

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Still in Switzerland. Learning some new technologies (SAP CAP framework). 27°C today and sunny. But it's been considerably hotter than that in the last few weeks. Most uncomfortable. We have a BBQ ban due to fire risk....

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Darn. Failed again.

Welcome back. ...

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The safest way to do any ladder work is have someone else do it.

Or just get scaffolding fitted. It's surprisingly inexpensive. It was one of the least expensive items when we had our house repainted, professionally, last year.

My son used to scramble up the theatre ladder...

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Wasn't that one of Brillopad's wives?...

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It's good of them to take the fall for you!...

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My wife and daughter get bitten every day even wearing repellent. I don't wear repellent, but seldom get bitten.

Now we're closing to understanding why. https://phys.org/news/2026-08-people...-unbitten.html

Yes, I have left an open goal...

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Where did we go? Most odd.

Temperature 25.4 °C (expected 31°C later)
Wind speed 4 km/h from SSE
Wind gusts 6 km/h
Humidity 63%
Pressure 981 hPa

The Rhine is currently warmer than our local lido. 25.3°C....