Smudge and clicker,
After those two harrowing tales, I take back all my unthinking words about hammocks - they were wholly out of order ! (my words that is, not the hammocks).
Smudge, a similar thing happened to me in India. We were bouncing along in the back of a truck. Of course the back was wide open, and I was wearing shorts. Some sort of superwasp, double normal size - probably a giant hornet of some sort - was sucked in by the backdraught, landed just above my left knee, and (quite unprovoked) gave me both barrels.
Like you (but not as badly) I was laid low for a day or two, and for at least twenty years afterwards a small red mark (like a small birthmark) stayed on the spot. But as our shorts were loosely cut, and nobody wore underwear, it might have been far worse !
Danny.
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