Hi I'm thinking of coming up to the nw highlands next week and wondering if ill miss the midges ? I'm hoping there a month behind like everything else ? Any around yet ? 
Midges about ?
- Thread starter peepingtom
- Start date
Not according to http://www.midgeforecast.co.uk/home
My girlfriend (lives in Kintail, not far from Eilean Donan castle) reckons that 3 weeks is the magic number - so add 3 weeks onto when the weather starts to brighten, and that's when you start to get the little blighters. By my reckoning, that means in about 2 or 3 weeks, they'll be out and about, feasting on tourists to their hearts content..
Cheers snappo I should be ok then 
AndyB1050
Registered user
Just come back from glen coe area, midge and bite free. Did get get sun burnt however which was a nice suprise 
west coast traveller
Registered user
Not a sign in Ullapool yet........
Hebby
Registered user
The midges are sitting on the fence and barking at the moment !
west coast traveller
Registered user
I take it back......midge reported in vicinity this morning.
phooey
Registered user
Beth&Chris just back after a week away in Dunkeld ( 8 miles North of Perth ). Not a Midge to be seen. Groundsman for the estate said its not warm enough for them yet.
Warm enough for us though
Warm enough for us though
Warm and humid in Fort Bill last couple of days.
None of the wee bastards yet, but..................
Brace yourself
None of the wee bastards yet, but..................
Brace yourself
AberdeenAngus
Registered user
It's quiet.
Too damn quiet.
You know they're out there.
Too damn quiet.
You know they're out there.
morty
Registered user
just make sure you have a bottle of avon skin so soft.problem sorted.
just make sure you have a bottle of avon skin so soft.problem sorted.
Soooo last year.......
'Smidge' is the stuff..
ghiribizzo
Registered user
+1 GW
They're here......
In Kintail and surroundings at least...
Fuckers.
In Kintail and surroundings at least...
Fuckers.
morty
Registered user
mmm skin so soft lasts for ages,been in midge infested areas for days,i laugh in the face of your smidge.
Last week midges in Fort William, Knoydart, and on Skye were out in force at times despite Avon skin so soft and Smidge.
yahoorsir
Registered user
midgies.......
couldn't sit outside The Oak Tree at Balmaha,Loch Lomond and enjoy a drink , had to go indoors.... loads o' the wee feckers there !
couldn't sit outside The Oak Tree at Balmaha,Loch Lomond and enjoy a drink , had to go indoors.... loads o' the wee feckers there !
The truth about Midges
Midges didn't actually exist until recently.
The midge myth was invented in 1963 by a young Mel Gibson. Even then he had visions of becoming the leader of Scots.
A bit like the Loch Ness monster, they were invented to deter the english from venturing over the border.
The monster scam failed because it attracted more visitors than it deterred .
The midge however, was a resounding success, until 1979 when word got around that nobody had ever seen one in ..or on the flesh.
English tourists started to return in droves, a lot of them even took up residence.
Action had to be taken.
African mosquitoes were imported and bred in captivity in 'the secret bunker' in Fife.
When an english tourist registered in a hotel or bed and breakfast, a package of midge.mossies was dispatched to the location and released.
Tourist buses had midge dispensers installed underneath the floor, activated by the door-opening mechanism.
This system worked for several years until it was discovered that the released mosquitoes had become resistant to the Scottish climate and had started to breed and were even attacking the natives.
Scientists, on a secret programme financed personally by Eck Salmond, invented a spray-on deterrent which they code named 'Avon skin so soft'.
No bald-headed loutish tattood englishman would ever put such a product on his body. "Aivon skeens so soaft .. foa blaady nancy boys that is ...innit"
Scots were informed of this remedy by a carefully controlled leafleting campaign, but a lazy leafleter dumped his bundle in a ditch in Glencoe, and they were found by a Michaela Strachan on her first springwatch assignment and the news was out.
Our best efforts were thwarted. The english kept on coming. We had to admit defeat and stopped all covert anti english programmes and go public with our concerns.
And thats why the referendum thing has come about.
We have, however, been left with the problematic legacy of the mosquito/midge situation. This is why Smidge was invented.
A Scottish problem, being solved by Scots.
Midges didn't actually exist until recently.
The midge myth was invented in 1963 by a young Mel Gibson. Even then he had visions of becoming the leader of Scots.
A bit like the Loch Ness monster, they were invented to deter the english from venturing over the border.
The monster scam failed because it attracted more visitors than it deterred .
The midge however, was a resounding success, until 1979 when word got around that nobody had ever seen one in ..or on the flesh.
English tourists started to return in droves, a lot of them even took up residence.
Action had to be taken.
African mosquitoes were imported and bred in captivity in 'the secret bunker' in Fife.
When an english tourist registered in a hotel or bed and breakfast, a package of midge.mossies was dispatched to the location and released.
Tourist buses had midge dispensers installed underneath the floor, activated by the door-opening mechanism.
This system worked for several years until it was discovered that the released mosquitoes had become resistant to the Scottish climate and had started to breed and were even attacking the natives.
Scientists, on a secret programme financed personally by Eck Salmond, invented a spray-on deterrent which they code named 'Avon skin so soft'.
No bald-headed loutish tattood englishman would ever put such a product on his body. "Aivon skeens so soaft .. foa blaady nancy boys that is ...innit"
Scots were informed of this remedy by a carefully controlled leafleting campaign, but a lazy leafleter dumped his bundle in a ditch in Glencoe, and they were found by a Michaela Strachan on her first springwatch assignment and the news was out.
Our best efforts were thwarted. The english kept on coming. We had to admit defeat and stopped all covert anti english programmes and go public with our concerns.
And thats why the referendum thing has come about.
We have, however, been left with the problematic legacy of the mosquito/midge situation. This is why Smidge was invented.
A Scottish problem, being solved by Scots.
Similar threads
