by jensouthern | Oct 31, 2018 | Blog
For single-celled creatures to traverse the world at first seemed impossible. Having no legs, locomotion on more than a microscopic scale presented unimaginable obstacles. However, with the assistance of two faithful servants, humans and sand flies, we have been able...
by jensouthern | Nov 1, 2018 | Blog
We began our travels under our own steam. Nimbly transforming to move between the warm blood stream of mammals and the cold bodies of sand flies. It has required some ingenuity on our part, but we found that the mammalian white blood cell made a fine and cosy carriage...
by jensouthern | Nov 2, 2018 | Blog
To travel by sand fly is to travel by a somewhat unreliable method. Following the example of the local inhabitants we merely wait for one to turn up in our vicinity. Thankfully, this occurs with a high frequency, but one never knows quite when to expect them, and so...
by jensouthern | Nov 3, 2018 | Blog
We have become quite nicely accustomed to our new environment. We hope it is not too indelicate to mention that we have spent our time here reproducing! Not in a conventional way but through a process of dividing, so that one of us becomes two, two become four, and so...
by jensouthern | Nov 4, 2018 | Blog
According to a rumour we heard, our cousins who prefer reptilian hosts are responsible for changing the course of history by slaying dinosaurs. I have it from a reliable source that our genetic history does indeed date back that far, but there’s no way of knowing if...
by jensouthern | Nov 5, 2018 | Blog
For millions of years we enjoyed traveling incognito, known only through evidence made apparent in our hosts. We are somewhat at their mercy, and time and again we are left stranded by their incompetence. Imagine how we felt as the sand fly that was transporting us...
by jensouthern | Nov 6, 2018 | Blog
Sand flies and reptiles have been convenient vehicles as they spread around the world. We remember when we all used to live in Pangea, in much simpler times before we found our mammalian hosts. The travel was, quite frankly, very limited in comparison to today. We...
by jensouthern | Nov 7, 2018 | Blog
Some of our most memorable travels have been preserved for posterity by the gruesome tradition of mummification. We’ll never forget our hosts in Egypt, although we were again cursed with untimely death. Our population was thriving inside the bloodways, organs and...
by jensouthern | Nov 8, 2018 | Blog
The group residing in the liver were the first to notice that something was amiss when it was violently wrenched from its place in the body and placed in a jar. Those of us still in the veins were left to slowly dry out, parched for more than 70 days! It was more than...
by jensouthern | Nov 10, 2018 | Blog
There are several sides to our family, most notable are those of us that seek out the internal organs, and those that inhabit the skin. In Ecuador and Peru we were most notorious for traveling in the latter from as early as 100 A.D. We must remark on how delightful...
by jensouthern | Nov 9, 2018 | Blog
So much for traveling incognito, our reputation is beginning to travel before us. We were delighted that news of our effects has received a royal mention! King Ashurbanipal of Assyria, Babylonia and Egypt wrote about the human symptoms of our presence on his famous...
by jensouthern | Nov 11, 2018 | Blog
Throughout the world we have benefited from the voyages of men and women over local and international boundaries. We are however particularly indebted to the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadores for their generous offer of transcontinental travel in the 16th Century....
by jensouthern | Nov 12, 2018 | Blog
Trained as a dog of war he had a taste for human flesh in a more savage way than we do. He was involved in some extremely unsavoury behaviour. Our deadly work is undertaken slowly and invisibly from the inside, Becerrillo and his friends were a vicious, obvious, and...
by jensouthern | Nov 13, 2018 | Blog
We call the dog our ‘reservoir’, a place to gather and socialise between humans and sand flies. We were rather worried about whether we would find onward travel options in a new continent, but we should not have been so troubled. The South American sand fly was a more...
by jensouthern | Nov 14, 2018 | Blog
During our time in Syria in the mid 18th century our skin-living cousins met with a physician named Alexander Russell, who called our effects the ‘Aleppo Boil’. We are of the opinion that encouraging this kind of publicity is dangerous, and can cause deleterious...
by jensouthern | Nov 15, 2018 | Blog
Our next destination of choice was India, the warm climate is quite wonderful for vacations, and by far our favourite conditions. The unstoppable colonialism of the British, and their penchant for building canals, roads and railways was a real boon for our aspirations...
by jensouthern | Nov 16, 2018 | Blog
We have never enjoyed being associated with bureaucracy, but it is undeniable that British colonial systems enabled us to open up whole new regions for inhabitation. It was while we were in India that we stowed away on British Steamers traveling to Assam, where we...
by jensouthern | Nov 17, 2018 | Blog
We have previously mentioned that we prefer to travel incognito, sadly after millenNia of tourism we were finally been subjected to scrutiny under Dr Leishman’s microscope. We were spotted taking in the sights in a sample of spleen. The bald, moustachioed Dr Leishman...
by jensouthern | Nov 18, 2018 | Blog
We may have been in more of a spotlight than we would prefer, but at least no one had yet noticed precisely how we travel. Until Major John Sinton got involved. Trust a military man to resort to cartography. Lord knows how he had obtained them, but he had maps of both...
by jensouthern | Nov 19, 2018 | Blog
You could be forgiven for thinking that these discoveries would have curtailed our adventures, but heaven forbid we should be so easily dissuaded. Despite numerous preventative measures humans have not successfully devised border controls that we cannot...
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