Nothing In Particular

[pre65]

To anyone who has not used their car (or vehicle) for several weeks might be a good idea to charge the battery .

Speaking from experience are we

Might be.

[IslandPink]

I like the first one!

You get an award for being a man of artistic taste !

[pre65]

Last weekend we caught a mouse in the humane trap, and I let it out up the road, about 300 yds away.

Got another one last night, so that will have to go a bit further away, incase it's the previous one returned.

Best bait seems to be anything chocolately.

[andrew Ivimey]

When I was a mouse I steered clear of chocolate - spots, fat, rotting teeth - not sexy.

But I could never refuse a bit of bacon!

I doubt that Mr Mouse, unleashed 300 yards up the road, could survive the cats, the foxes, bears and pterodactils that still soar through Suffolk skies.

But Mr & Mrs Mouse do very little else than shag each other stupid - we breed with incontinent success.

It is rare indeed to just have one mouse!

[pre65]

Well, he (or she) certainly bounded when let free, it's a better fate than being crushed by a normal mousetrap.

I'll set up the two traps again tonight with a bit of Aldi imitation KitKat.

Talking of Aldi, Jean says the last few shops she's done seem a bit more expensive, but suppose we must feel fortunate to have any food at all.

[ed]

wot you needs is one of these:

since I built it a couple of years ago we haven't had one mouse in the house.

[steve s]

wot you needs is one of these:
mousetrap.jpg

since I built it a couple of years ago we haven't had one mouse in the house.

Looks impressive ed.. does it play your music to them..

[Neal]

Caught many mice in a humane trap during winter months, relocating them to the woods 1/2 mile away. After about the 11th one I was getting fed up (some died in the trap overnight) it was pointed out to me that relocating them probably kills them anyhow as they’ve no nest to keep warm in overnight. I went out and bought a bunch of little snappers!

[pre65]

Being released and then eaten by a predator is natural, helping other animals to survive.

At least being free gives them a chance.

[jack]

Had 4 Peacock butterflies in the workshop yesterday. All gently taken off the windows and released outside...

Some sodding great big bumblebees around too - queens looking for nesting sites mainly...

[shane]

First swallow arrived this morning. A nice reminder that some things are carrying on as normal.

[jack]

First swallow...

Reminds me of an old saying...

[Neal]

When mice chew through your classic cars cam belt and wiring causing a bucket load of grief and expense they become enemy #1. They're vermin and reproduce at a prodigious rate.

[IslandPink]

Some sodding great big bumblebees around too - queens looking for nesting sites mainly...

Yes, a few of those cruising around here too. I heard one through the double-glazed kitchen window at my computer, I first thought it was in the house.

[pre65]

Some sodding great big bumblebees around too - queens looking for nesting sites mainly...

Yes, a few of those cruising around here too. I heard one through the double-glazed kitchen window at my computer, I first thought it was in the house.

Bees using your computer ?