One hundred million reasons to stay home

Relentless blood sucking predators, sneaking up on you when you're asleep, infiltrating your bedroom sanctuary to penetrate your skin and leave you with an itchy bitchy mound of redness. Mosquitos. Mozzies. Douche bags. Call them what you like, but they suck. Quite literally. So far we've had the relative luxury of not needing constant nets and creams. But the future looks bleak. Once further along into South East Asia, they will surely do their darndest to attack any visibly body parts.

No wonder they wipe out more people worldwide than all other insects put together. 70 million people a year get infected with Malaria, and it kills more than 5 million annually.



For us, to date, fortunately only our ankles and a few places along out wrists have been targetted. The uncontrollable itch has been made slightly more controllable by a very cool device from BOOTS. A small plastic BBQ lighter-looking-thing that, when clicked, numbs the skin with a small current. Click a few times and the mozzie bite is suddenly quite forgettable, for a while. It works, but it looks and sounds pretty stupid. Move over, folks. City slickers coming through.