Does anything eat Wasps?

If you didn't get this popular stocking filler from a few years ago,

then I can now reveal the answer, it is me.  However I wouldn't

the answer is me, but I wouldn't recommend it!

recommend it, especially if like me you have developed a severe

reaction to bee stings brought on by prolonged exposure to Clare's

bees.  The wasp had snuck unseen into a chicken sandwich I was eating

in  a very nice little park in the centre of Riga and as I ate it it

stung the roof of my mouth.  Those of you who teach key stage three

science will of course know that bees have an acidic sting and wasps an

alkaline sting (or else the other way around, I can never remember and

besides it'll be at least another year before I'm expected to enthrall

a class of 12 year olds with that fact!) but the pH of insect stings

doesn't seem to make much difference to my body which made my mouth and

throat start to swell.

Clare then bundled me into a taxi and took

me off to the local hospital where she perfected her mime of someone

being stung by a wasp and then swelling up and I was injected with a

number of unknown drugs which did the business

and sorted out the swelling.

After

an afternoon under observation in A&E I was allowed to go home

and  in  an inspired move  it was decided  that  our  hotel

specializing in stag parties was not the best place  to convalesce and

so we checked into the Grand Palace Hotel.  Things started to look a

lot better as soon as the black BMW they sent to collect us pulled up,

and once we were settled into the leather interior I started to relax!

Now

the next day I'm feeling a lot better, no swelling to report and

although I'm shattered I have managed to walk across the room to the

intenet terminal in my complementary robe and slippers.

So if you

have the book on the shelf you now  need to make a small note in the

margin  to add Aaron to the list of things that eat wasps!