Thursday 2 August 2007

Cockroaches were never a feature of the house where I grew up. Not even at university, when I lived with a large number of young men whose hygienic concerns were, shall we say, not foremost, did I have many day to day dealings with cock roaches. But here in the Philippines the cucaracha is indeed a force to reckoned with.
They fly, and word has it they bite and will drink from the corner of a sleeping child's mouth. One smack with a flip flop, for example, is rarely enough to get the job done, I have read they can live for a month without their heads. They eat paper.

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