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My mates, the maggots
Warning — today’s ramblings discuss live maggots used in weird medical and agricultural practices, so perhaps best not read while you are eating, says PETER FROST
Maggots [Robert Gunnarsson / Creative Commons]

WE HAD a small domestic crisis, and a bit of a mystery, at Chez Frosty back in the days just before the heat wave.  

We finished eating supper at about 9pm and cleared up. As always, we left the room and its wooden floor immaculate.  

When my wife Ann returned to the kitchen at about midnight, she felt a strange sensation under her bare feet.  

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