Originally Posted by
Mendip
I still remember that view, vividly... it was fully engorged and the size of a decent garden pea (the tick, that is) and I felt a bit faint when looking at it... this was really a horrible experience. I yanked it off of course and probably threw it down the toilet, but what I still can't understand... presumably I picked it up from the hay at the farm but how the hell was it still there after a bit of rumpty pumpty with the missus? And I was pretty enthusiastic back in those days, if you know what I mean.
This is still a mystery to me... was it there throughout? How else could it have got there?