RE: Knitting Planting Flooding Ulog
I feel you!!! I get headaches/ migraines from cleaners, especially worse are things which contain alcohol like window cleaner or disinfectants. I have no idea how someone could stand shopping inside a perfumery or sitting for longer inside a washing shop.
And with the plumbing, argh, so sorry, I remember you having this problems regularly and this sucks. I hope the landlord takes heart and renovates.
Sometimes I think we secretly live in the same Appartement, as we also have problems with water, but ours drips down from a not insulated roof.
And the flying beasts... I am not sure if I googled the right name but we have an infection with sciarid mosquitoes, little flies which grow in the earth of potted flowers. And if you water them they grow even more and then one generation starts to get wings and infect the next flower 😱😱😱😱😱 I try to fight them by watering only the roots... and I use these glue traps. Not very successful.
At least: love your knitting. THe speckled/tweedy yarn is so lovely.. the one dark one with the pink dots/flecks <3
Oh no! I'm sorry you have water problems too. Once it was raining inside my apartment because a pipe burst two stories above me so I'm sure a leaky roof all the time is no fun!!
Yeah, I looked up that name and Wikipedia showed me sciarid mosquitoes, they're either the same or a very closely related one since it said there were lots of different species of them. But yeah - all over in the houseplants. And the sink drains! I got rid of them once, and then I brought new plants into the apartment and now they're back. The way I did it was a) water from below - I use aqua globes or if you have planters that let you water from the bottom - and b) flush the sink and tub drains occasionally with boiling water and/or baking soda and vinegar - and be sure to do the overflow hole in the bathroom sink. I always see them crawling into that. Hopefully now that I have enough of the watering globes I can get rid of them again. :)