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Does anyone forgo using Aeroguard or lighting Citronella candles in the interest of preserving your sense of smell and taste when tasting at outdoor functions ? If so, have you ever paid the price with Ross River fever, Malaria or just an annoying mossy itch that stayed with you for days.

Are there any nose/palate friendly anti-mossie techniques anyone has used with success?

Yes. Place two hands approx 20cm either side of the pest as it flies into your view. Bring hands together very quickly ensnaring and crushing the pest between them. Two known side-effects - a large report may startle other guests and you have to put your wine glass down.

Sorry, putting down a glass of wine is far too high a price to pay


BA

Move out of the swamp.
Stay indoors.
Drink beer.

individualised mossie net.

Ultrasonic pest repeller maybe?

Never mind the citronella...what about the dangers of lipstick & perfume contamination? I have created a 5m exclusion zone around me when I am drinking with women (10m for anyone in high heels...female or male!)

I use mozzie zappers inside. Otherwise it's spraying the chairs and tables a half hour beforehand and spraying myself whilst breathing out very slowly so as not to let any of the Aeroguard molecules rest within the cavern. Glasses decanter and wine are kept within the airtight chamber at this important time. My problem is that after a few glasses I get the urge to smoke, and hence I always try and get any TN's in early.

best,

simm wrote:I use mozzie zappers inside. Otherwise it's spraying the chairs and tables a half hour beforehand and spraying myself whilst breathing out very slowly so as not to let any of the Aeroguard molecules rest within the cavern. Glasses decanter and wine are kept within the airtight chamber at this important time. My problem is that after a few glasses I get the urge to smoke, and hence I always try and get any TN's in early.

best,

You smoke simm ?? Do you beleive it affects your palate and nose at all ? I know that after about a year of giving up smoking my tastes and sense of smell became much more sensitive and my tastes changed dramatically.

markg wrote:

simm wrote:I use mozzie zappers inside. Otherwise it's spraying the chairs and tables a half hour beforehand and spraying myself whilst breathing out very slowly so as not to let any of the Aeroguard molecules rest within the cavern. Glasses decanter and wine are kept within the airtight chamber at this important time. My problem is that after a few glasses I get the urge to smoke, and hence I always try and get any TN's in early.

best,

You smoke simm ?? Do you beleive it affects your palate and nose at all ? I know that after about a year of giving up smoking my tastes and sense of smell became much more sensitive and my tastes changed dramatically.

Agree on the palate and nose. I have been off the durries for 2 years 6 months 11 days and 13 hours. I tell myself I don't miss them but walking outside a shopping centre through the wafting smell of fine tobacco smoke is distracting (but nice).

Simm, great time to have a smoke with a drink (especially beer) but I'm not allowed to weaken or my wine budget could be seriously effected.

Graham

Really doesn't matter what you do! Those mozzies still want a drink of full bodied red. Frankly, I can't blame them!