Anyone ever had a cricket onboard

[leeco]

It’s doing my head in and I can’t find it

[MtB]

11 minutes ago, leeco said:

It’s doing my head in and I can’t find it

 

You have much to learn, grasshopper....

[leeco]

27 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

You have much to learn, grasshopper....

It’s antisocial it won’t shut up. I have to be up at 6am for work ?

[MtB]

Stereo hearing should be the way to trace its location...

[Jim Riley]

If anyone else wants one I know where there's one going cheap. 

[matty40s]

This one's been keeping an eye on us this week...

[rusty69]

26 minutes ago, matty40s said:

This one's been keeping an eye on us this week...

Amazing how they can stick to shiny vertical surfaces. 

 

 

 

 

OP, get yourself a cricket  bat. Problem sorted! 

Edited August 21, 2018 by rusty69

[Alan de Enfield]

Don't you find that the balls break the windows ?

[David Mack]

Cricket on a boat?  Just about possible I suppose, a full length narrow boat is over 22 yards long.

[bizzard]

Jiminy,

[Nut]

im told that if you play buddy holly records they join in the chorus ,so then you can locate it

[leeco]

He will probably be sleeping now ready for round 4 tonight. I know where he is in an external wall but I’m not dismantling my boat to find him.

 

anyone know how long they live for?

[Hudds Lad]

turn the shower on, it’ll think its rain, everyone knows rain stops cricket

[rusty69]

The poetry of earth is ceasing never:    

  On a lone winter evening, when the frost      

    Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills    

The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,    

  And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,    

 

Edited August 21, 2018 by rusty69
John Keats (Excerpt)

[Ray T]

9 hours ago, leeco said:

It’s doing my head in and I can’t find it

Howzat?

 

Do what the boaters of yore did - light a sulpher candle, tape up all cracks, close all windows and vacate the boat for a day.

 

http://dave-cushman.net/bee/fumcandle.html

Edited August 21, 2018 by Ray T

[Machpoint005]

3 hours ago, rusty69 said:

 

OP, get yourself a cricket  bat. Problem sorted! 

 

I'm no chiropterologist, but isn't that a fruit-eating bat?

[rusty69]

1 minute ago, Machpoint005 said:

 

I'm no chiropterologist, but isn't that a fruit-eating bat?

I don't know that, I didn't even know bats suffered from bad feet!

[Machpoint005]

...from chiroptera, the order of bats, hence "batting order".

[rusty69]

....Now I'm stumped!

[Alan de Enfield]

55 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

....Now I'm stumped!

I'm out !!

[rusty69]

4 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

I'm out !!

For that reason,you must be a dragon-cricket

[cuthound]

I misread the thread title and thought someone had found a novel use for a tug deck ?

[leeco]

Here we go again ?

[rusty69]

21-05 still not out! 

[Aguila]

Friendly little critters!