I friend asked me the other day whether I had noticed that I have less dead flies on my car, My initial thoughts this was some sort of quipp about my driving, but she was quite insistent that I think about it. As I had only just washed my car some two days previously, it was easy to recall... no, I didn’t have any flies to wash off, or on the windscreen

Honestly, I hate flies, they really annoy me, but this was very true, there must be a shortage of flies To add to this, I was walking through a wooded area, looking at all the conkers and how I used to collect them to ward off spiders and then I thought, I haven’t seen as many of them as usual either!

Have I been very lucky and they’ve all gone to my neighbour or is this a sign of the times? Our changing climate and loss of species.