It's that man again!

We often have mice and they are so bold - they will sit in the kitchen and look at you!

And we have had rats indoors - I am definitely less sanguine about them! We never feed the birds because we are in a rat area and the feed attracts the rats.

So much for or rural idyll!! - but I wouldn't swap it!!

I loved lacrosse! I had the old wooden sticks with hideous 'gut' nets.. Good for cartching a squirrel or two though!

I played goal keeper as I couldn't run. Oh the smell of linseed oil!

Gosh that was brave! Our goalkeeper had her jaw broken and had to have it all wired together. No protectors in those days except on your legs!

In the print shop at Amberley Museum where I volunteer, we have a regular 'mouse run'. He (or she) will come out at any time of the day, however busy we might be, and take the usual course across the printshop floor and out a side door into the rough area of ground - sometimes he takes another route where the visitors are, which creates quite a stir if someone spots him, but we just say 'Oh!, there he goes'. In the winter time, when the print shop is very quiet, we can hear them rustling in the walls.
About the shooting Jeni, a long time ago we had someone shooting locally, we could hear it, and reported this to the police who looked into the matter, and it was stopped. We were concerned about a riquochet, which is something you might consider.

What am I doing 'riquochet'? - I have no idea where that came from - I am making it up as I go along, as is probably obvious. I meant of course ricochet!

We get a mouse invasion most late autumns when the weather gets cold. We put down traps. Usually deals with them snappily. (Sorry!)

I don't mind people shooting vermin, but I do think finding dead vermin in the middle of your lawn when you haven't done the shooting is decidedly odd. Couldn't he have cleared it away before you saw it, jeni? And if so, why didn't he?

how if the neighbour shot the mouse on your lawn , could he remove it wouldn"t that be trespassing ?

I have no idea! He has a key to the back gate, so he can trim his side and angel can pick fruit and veg! He has permission to come in as neccessary. If he had removed it I would have been the wiser!
The mans an idiot!

Mouse?

oh Jeni it must be a total nightmare for you , I am sooo sorry for you , I only once had the neighbour from hell so I know what you are going through , you have to step very carefully as he sounds like a total pig . I am sure this has been said before but can the council help ? you shouldn"t be having to put up with this it"s not not right x

I'm too fond of his wife to want to upset the applecart!
No it's not a nightmare! He just makes me so
Mind you everyone who knows him says he's nutty!

Surely St Trinians?