Antinotes and other notes blog

What’s all this about ants then?

In 2015 a friend and I were discussing the ants we’d seen around our houses, and later I wrote in an email to her:

“…As regards my own wee visitors of the last few days there is good news and not so. It was a carpenter ant – that’s the not so good news! The good news – yesterday I was missing my daily ant. No visitation. We hope that it was going back to its colony (not in my house please) to report that ‘that thar darned cafe has no food!’” And… “Doesn’t that sound like the title of a newsletter or something? Or a daily column in a newspaper? ‘The Daily Ant’.” And so I decided to write one.

“The Daily Ant – your very own weekly newspaper. It isn’t a newspaper, it isn’t weekly, or daily, and has nothing to do with ants. Well not much, anyway.”

It did appear on Shaw’s free webspace for a while, until they put an end to free webspaces (hmm too many ants?). So the Ant has been in hibernation ever since, waiting for the proper time to make a comeback. It has agreed to a limited number of appearances here courtesy of the Kick-Ass Frass Tal-Ant Agency. The management like to retain the element of surprise. So check back when you can for new entries. You know it makes sense!