Thanks for your reply El Jug. Some of these 'Organic' methods sound really vicious.
Got this for the general Description
The adult bedbug is a flat, oval shaped insect approximately 5 mm long, reddish-brown in colour becoming purple after feeding. They are nocturnal insects which feed at night.
Distribution
Bedbugs are unable to fly, they either crawl or are passively transported in clothing, luggage, furniture, books or other objects used as harbourage. They are able to survive many months without feeding which increases their chances of surviving long periods of transportation or storage.
Any household can become infested with bedbugs but it is more likely that an infestation will occur in premises with low standards of hygiene. Bed bugs may be associated with poor, overcrowded and unhygienic conditions.
Infestations of bedbugs found in domestic premises usually occur in the bedrooms. Both adult and juveniles live together hiding in cracks and crevices most of the time. They normally come out at night usually just before dawn to feed on the blood of their sleeping hosts. Bedbugs will normally hide close to where the host sleeps e.g. in the frame of the bed or mattress, in furniture, behind the skirting board or wallpaper or anywhere that provides a dark harbourage during the daylight hours.
In the UK bedbugs reach peak numbers towards early autumn when all stages in their life cycle will be present. Activities decrease with the onset of cold weather, egg laying ceases and the development of the juveniles slow down. Bedbugs overwinter mainly as adults unless in adequately heasted premises.
Life Cycle
Bedbug eggs are cemented to the surface of the harbourage, often in large numbers. Temperature and the availability of food have a profound effect on egg production and under ideal conditions can be almost continuos, at a rate of about three per day. The eggs hatch to produce a nymph just over 1 mm long and like all nymphal stages appear similar to the adults apart from size and colour. The nymph requires one full blood meal before moulting to the next stage. Development from egg to adult and the duration of adult life varies according to temperature and the availability of food. At 18 - 20°C nymphs feed about every ten days and the adults weekly. If necessary both can survive long periods without food. In unheated rooms where the temperature drops below 13°C in the winter, egg laying and feeding stops and the population declines as eggs and young nymphs die.
Control
In all infestations an attempt should be made to determine the source of the infestation, so that proper control measures can be taken. The inspection would highlight the extent of the infestation since the measures necessary for control would depend on whether the infestation is established and widely distributed throughout the premises, or recently introduced and likely to be more localised.
It seems a 'geezer' went round this morning,did his stuff and claims it's "all OKEY-DOKEY sorted" But I thought I'd leave it here for further reference.
By-the-by El Jug do you still have photo's of me at U75 party well in the past? I would be interested.
spliff xxx
...but I can't let you know 'till you fumigate your box! 
) and hoovering up their eggs. ugh. of course, you then have to FULLY clean your hoover out and wash all parts in boiling water. But is worth the hassle. 
