In reply to IainRUK: Don't we just love our high places. All we need to finish this off is the introduction to our tarns and llyn of that parasitic fish which swims up the urethra when you go for a dip. Wouldnt that be a treat.
Speaking of horse flies. I was fishing on the trent yesterday and all of a sudden I looked at my arm and i saw this horse fly quite literally munching my flesh - I could actually see its mouthparts. This is the first time I have ever been bitten by one (to my knowledge). Ugly little feckers, aren't they?