I was 16 and sacked off the last few months at school to go and get a summer job in Cornwall, set off on cup final day, hitch-hiking, got a lift off some rags and ended up watching them get beat by Southampton. I then got a lift with some saints fans to there, the whole town was out celebrating and I had a great night minesweeping in the pubs, slept in the stairwell of a block of flats, watched the bus parade in the pissing rain on the Sunday and then set off for Cornwall, took me 2 days.
I got a portering job in a hotel and had the best summer, don't remember the ladybird invasion but I do recall there were Maybugs everywhere in the evenings, big fuckers, also known as cockchafers, no idea why.
It was indeed a brilliant hot summer, didn't come back home until October.
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edit, see plenty of ladybirds in our garden this time of year, not just red and black ones either, some yellow ones about.