Ants in your pants.
on Mary In Cambodia (Cambodia), 07/Mar/2011 14:03, 34 days ago
 Ants in your pants.Not as funny as it sounds, so please don’t laugh, well at least until the itch goes away.I think I may have written about ants before, but the little blighters are back again. I was in Phnom Penh for a few days last week. On my return on Friday, eight and a half hours in a bus on poor roads, including a flat tyre and a while standing in baking heat waiting for a replacement, I was desperate for a cup of tea. I boiled the kettle and made myself a good strong one. While I was drinking it, I noticed little bits floating and thought the teabag had broken. Later when I went to fill the kettle for another cup, I discovered the ant soup. Hundreds of the little sods boiled, so much for my broken teabag! They don’t seem to have done me any harm, maybe it’s just Cambodian ants you can eat. It is a fact according to my assistant, that anything that moves in Cambodia can and is eaten.I woke itching on Saturday morning, lumps everywhere, I worried that I had been bitten by a swarm of mosquitoes, almost expected that I was for the down trail, surely among so many, one at least had dengue, malaria or Japanese Encef…. whatever. It was lunch time before I discovered I didn‘t need to worry. I noticed an ant creeping out of my pillow case and found hundreds of them running riot in there, I lifted a bundle of clean towels from the end of my bed to find another half million showing displeasure at being disturbed. Thank God for RAID. A couple of hours later there was an army of them brazenly marching out from behind my wardrobe. I’ve cleaned and sprayed every inch of the room, Are they gone? Who knows, I haven’t seen any for a day or two, but I feel them crawling all over me. The power of imagination!