Maybe try the spray I use for Rasta @Liriodendron? You spray the tick and it just drops off. Not always instant so needs checking. Frontline from the pharmacy.
Haven't had a bit here - yet - but I do appear to be a tasty snack for horse flies - painful bite and then a big, itchy lump the size of half a tennis ball. Funnily enough, the 4th Covid jab I had on Friday has done the same thing.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
DEET doesn't seem to work against ticks, on me anyway. Despite dosing myself liberally when venturing out into the garden I picked up at least 67 ticks last year. So far this year I have only picked up 4 and have been using a different insecticide spray on my clothes ( https://www.lifesystems.co.uk/products/insect-repellents/ex4-anti-mosquito-spray )
Yes I do that occasionally, thank you, (when it's a new complicated name) but sometimes I need to go back to quote so that I can answer the question properly and in context. I wondered if I was missing something, possibly an easier way to use part of the post.
It annoys me when people do that too - the entire quote. No need for it. You can simply reply using the '@' and the person's name. If you want to use the quote, you can also delete everything in it apart from the relevant bit you're replying to. Just highlight and use the backspace. It's sometimes easier to do your answer first though - it often won't let you put the cursor down below the quote, and you have to answer inside the quote box. The west side is definitely more of a hunting ground for them @Liriodendron. My BIL had a nasty tick bite years ago and had Lyme's. He worked for SNH and was often out doing field work etc, so it was a risk that went with the job. I'm fortunate that most insects don't seem to care for me. I must smell odd
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
"I wondered if I was missing something, possibly an easier way to use part of the post."
You can delete bits but it takes ages. I just highlight copy and paste the bit I want . Sometimes I even use quotation marks! Then go down a couple of lines.
It’s just that my and a few other people’s internet is a bit slow, when there are loads of photos posted, then someone quotes the same load of photos, it takes ages for me . You can also quote the post but delete the photos, that would be a bit better. There’s just certain people posting who feel the need to quote the whole blooming lot, then put in a one liner at the end of it. Even if they deleted the unimportant bits it would be better.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I doubt people 'feel the need to quote the whole thing'. It's far more likely that they don't know how to delete sections of the post they are quoting from. I can happily, and easily, delete chunks of text when working from my laptop, but have never tried on either a phone or tablet. I'm sure I'd find it a lot more fiddly.
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Haven't had a bit here - yet - but I do appear to be a tasty snack for horse flies - painful bite and then a big, itchy lump the size of half a tennis ball. Funnily enough, the 4th Covid jab I had on Friday has done the same thing.
If you want to use the quote, you can also delete everything in it apart from the relevant bit you're replying to. Just highlight and use the backspace. It's sometimes easier to do your answer first though - it often won't let you put the cursor down below the quote, and you have to answer inside the quote box.
The west side is definitely more of a hunting ground for them @Liriodendron. My BIL had a nasty tick bite years ago and had Lyme's. He worked for SNH and was often out doing field work etc, so it was a risk that went with the job. I'm fortunate that most insects don't seem to care for me. I must smell odd
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
You can delete bits but it takes ages. I just highlight copy and paste the bit I want . Sometimes I even use quotation marks! Then go down a couple of lines.
You can also quote the post but delete the photos, that would be a bit better.
There’s just certain people posting who feel the need to quote the whole blooming lot, then put in a one liner at the end of it.
Even if they deleted the unimportant bits it would be better.