The pest I’ll never forget: the cockroaches I still dream about
I’ve forgotten most things people said to me in the 80s, but never that.
The Guardian reports: I’ve forgotten most things people said to me in the 80s, but never that.
My student house in Manchester had several thousand other occupants. Despite pest controllers regularly dousing the property, the glossy, greasy, relentless insects marched onwards, endlessly reproducing ‘You do know about the cockroaches?”
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