Worried about roaches and lack of smoked haddock
By princess habibah •
Okay.. since reading some of the posts on here I am extremely worried about 1 particular thing..
Which is all the COCKROACHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know in Yemen they have alot of scorpions, roaches, cockroaches, and all sort of disgusting insects. And in most places they DO come into the house.
Since I have been on this site people have said they have seen roaches in bakeries!
And most recently roaches in hotels..
So please someone give me the low down and how I can avoid them. What are the good quality hotels in the area?
Also can we buy smoked haddock in Qatar because I can't live without it.. Its delicious!
I find that odd !!
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we put it out on the mounds and they happily take it down into the nest...withing 24 hours they are dead. Makes you feel great about drinking sodas with that in it!
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. --Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
gotta love the huge flying ones!! Was in Cuba on a mission trip with 2 other women and one guy. Women all slept in a large room with one light bulb hanging down from the 20 ft tall ceiling. Ok..lights go out, we start drifting off to sleep and there's this blood curdling scream.."turn the lights on, turn the lights on!" So I jump out of bed, pull the chain and one of the ladies was sitting up in bed. She flipped her pillow over and there was this ENORMOUS cockroach that had fallen off the thatch roof and onto her pillow. I have NEVER EVER seen anyone go from one bed, fly across the room, feet never touching the floor,over a distance of about 15 ft, and perch like a bird on the edge of another bed. I was laughing so hard I almost wet myself. Ended up having to put the poor thing out of its misery (cockroach, not the girl) with a sandal. We slept with the lights on the rest of the night, beds all smooshed together...I won't even go into the giant man-eating spider story....
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. --Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
roaches, pest proofing is available. Keep this number handy
Qatar Pest Control Contact No. 5517232
at the previous place we used to get centipedes crawl in fr under the front door until we sorta sealed it with a huge wet bath towel.....but funny thing is each one we find is never alive all are so dead i wonder why, even the flies and mosquitoes , we kinda just sweep their dead carcass into the dust pan, did they all commit suicide??
life's too short so make the most of it, you only live but once.......
from now on. I once found a huge spider under my pillow at home and for months after that I always looked under the pillow and under the bed to see if any were there.
So it looks like that will be my nghtly ritual for a few month now before I go to bed,
nightmares ya say??dang i may even swat the wrong thing...................sorry i apologise i am so bad.......pls forgive me
life's too short so make the most of it, you only live but once.......
I'll be have nightmares tonight, lol
lesson # 1NEVER AND i repeat NEVER try to swat any insect especially a roach when you are stark naked(like our good friend dweller here , btw dweller too much info>winks )reason>>??not a pretty sight like you say doing a trampoline???when ya gonna take on a trampoline ya needs lots of support (dont have to elaborate now do i)
reason #2, now ya never know where that insect may decide to land(ewww getting squemish already)
ok let me stop for a jolly good cackle or two...............roflol, hahhahahahahah>sniggers, giggles
life's too short so make the most of it, you only live but once.......
They can fly.....believe me, I kid you not!
My Mrs has recollections of one in our bedroom and me doing a trampoline act on the bed trying to swat it...naked! (Enough to frighten anyone)
It eventually landed and tried to run down the wall alongside a fitted wardrobe and that's where it met its messy end. Yellow gunge all over the wall.
It had originally fallen off the ceiling directly above the wife. She cleared me from a laying position without touching me and she is definitely not an athletic person.
didn't roaches they could fly, when did they get their passports?, lol
I don't want to upset anyone but are you talking about the "Bombay Runners"?
LOL like Roadrunner with more legs!
which brings me back to many many a moon ago when i was as huge as a whale (pregnant) and we went to this night market and without any warning a freakin flying cockroach decide to make its landing on my head and heaven forbid i was doing the HOKEY POKEY DANCE right there in public and i was shrieking and screamin like a mad woman (pregnant mad woman) but not as if i had seen that vermin but i smelt it when it landed on my head and i knew for sure wat it was............it was so embarassing considering i am somany many times bigger than that roach and here i was behaving in that manner and good thing too my water bag did not burst right there and then............phew talk abt humiliation that was it!lol(btw that was some 16 yrs ago)
life's too short so make the most of it, you only live but once.......
I know when we first go our villa they were hundreds of them. First thing we did was get the pest control to come in & now they come everymonth and spray in & outside the house.
The only way to avoid them is move into a new building......on the top floor.
That way it could take them years to discover you. I doubt there's a villa in Doha that doesn't have them.
They come up the drains and into the bathrooms kitchens. You would be amazed at how they can get through a small space for such a big insect. They can grow to 3 or 4 inches and boy, are they quick!
When you go on leave always put clingfilm over the toilet otherwise as the water dries out in the bowl, they have free access to your home.
They invariably come in pairs so if you find one, look for it's mate (they mate for life).
The eggs are a bit like an apple pip but bigger and wedge shaped.
And don't forget that they fly!
hey there richard, long time no see buddy, how ya doing ??hey that is gross that description abt them exploding and all <me not like it.......ewwwwww
life's too short so make the most of it, you only live but once.......
The cockroaches here are very fast. You have to move quickly to stamp on them and when you do, they explode, all that nasty fluid in them.
Fairy tales don't tell children dragons exist. Children know dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children dragons can be killed. G.K Chesterton
yes in my previuous villa the roaches start coming round abt now when the weather gets warmer, they normally come fr the bathroom into the villa and there are loads outside where the sewer tank is when we got pest control to come and get rid of them the final scene was like thousands came out fr there and it was like a warpath, now in this new villa with the pest control comin every mth alhamdullillah not seen one roach yet......amen to that- me not like roaches either and i can smell if there is one in the room.....
life's too short so make the most of it, you only live but once.......
When I lived in Manhattan, I shared my apartment with 10,000 cockroaches. I had to buy Cockroach Motel almost every day in the summer in NYC. Here, I have never seen more than 10 in my apartment in almost two years here.
The bugs aren't too bad here at all.
Fairy tales don't tell children dragons exist. Children know dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children dragons can be killed. G.K Chesterton