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Just because I now insure my car through SAGA...

OLD BIDDIE!

Foiled again eh?

alan refail wrote:I rather suspected they'd leave the potato and lick up all the flour

Have you got any suspects yet? If the flour all goes, use talcum powder; they'll have lovely smooth bottoms

Dear Chantal, are we talking about the rats or the convicts.

Still no sign of either

Hmm, but are the spuds still disappearing?

This is like an episode of Jonathan Creek

No. Bait spud is still there

I have my own problems now. Something has been raiding the greenhouse and scoffing first the broad beans and now the sweetcorn which was just starting to sprout.

I have put out the mousetrap for the past two nights, baited with Marathon bar and on both occasions the bait has gone, the trap has sprung but no victim. I am now suspecting something larger than a mouse and have left the rest of the semi wrapped Marathon in place of the trap. If the whole damn thing goes missing, I shall be out shopping for rat bait

Diego and Fabio have been snooping around the greenhouse, but short of making them live in there, there's not a lot they can do and I'm worried about paws and noses in mouse traps.

I've resown the sweetcorn and covered with a propagetor lid; interesting there's been no thieving of the seed potatoes

Hi Chantal

Sounds like mice. I had problems in the tunnel last autumn with mice eating late sown broad beans. I lost over half, but eliminated the mice with a couple of these



"The big cheese" - look flimsy but are deadly

Chantal wrote:.... I shall be out shopping for rat bait

and looking for a large mouse with chocolate all around his/her chops

Looks more like a box for a big cheeseburger!

It's a mouse with chocolate around it's chops (thank you Suzie )
as the chocolate is stripped off the bar, but very little teeth marks and most of the bar is still there.

A trap on a more stable surface is required, I think.

At least I didn't lose any seeds last night!

Chantal wrote:Looks more like a box for a big cheeseburger!

Small, light and flimsy (to look at) but it really works.

Chantal wrote:...as the chocolate is stripped off the bar, but very little teeth marks and most of the bar is still there.

Ah I see - here's a plan, ask at the Dentist if they have recently had a tooth-less mouse in

See our Ma always said too much chocolate was bad for our teeth

Yeah, one whose breath smells of peanuts!