Don't let the bed bugs bite

Well too late for that. I would have expected this in France, but the realisation that the large ugly welts on my arms were bed bug bites from my new house came as a nasty surprise. So I have been stomping around grumpily for a few days now (between bouts of itching) waiting for the landlord to come home to organise some fumigation - as there is basically nothing you can do yourself at home to get rid of them.

It took me until this afternoon to see the funny side - at the memory of me in the dark last night, carefully peeling back the bedclothes like some 3rd rate CSI investigator with a maglight flashlight between my teeth, and using my lint remover to collect 'evidence' from the mattress. I need to stop watching so much TV.