so, the air con and the heating are still broken 😦

Luckily its 27 degrees at the moment, which is easily “ideal temperature” for me -jeans and t-shirt with no air con needed.  Its about 10-13 at night, which makes it a little chilly in the mornings (as we have no double glazing, naff -all insulation and thin-ish walls) but all in all, its pretty much optimal.

I have the air-con guys coming back (3rd time) tomorrow, although there isn’t any rush for them, its not going to be hot again before October, and the heating guys coming at the end of May, hopefully just in time for when it gets cold.

Well, that was a boring post..

Gonna do some photography later.  Not sure of what though, am a bit stuck for ideas.

got another one 🙂

thats two down and a lot less noise coming from the roof.

I couldnt get through the loft to the bedroom if I tried there’s so much aircon ducting and so little room in the roofspace, so I’ll have to be content with getting the little buggers as they come into the kitchen. 

I feel kind of bad about killing them, but they’re not hygenic to have in the house.

so, lots of new traps later – all positioned strategically around the kitchen (the loft is so small I cant really see myself getting up in there to check a trap daily, and poison isnt any good as the mouse might die and get chomped by the small dogglet, and that won’t do either) the mice remain ellusive

I wonder if it’s just a matter of time – or if they’re super intelligent mice and have the measure of my carefully laid minefield.

Does anyone do cats for hire?

On another note – we have frogs outside too, they were doing their mating (well, at least I suspect it might have been that) call last night all over our front lawn – so we went outside to investigate (is that frog-vouyerism?) with the torch, but I couldn’t see any, despite seeming standing right over them..ah well.  I’ll have another go tonight..  if I get pictures, is that frog porn?  LOL!

we have mice in the house.

We only noticed as there was that cardboardy like fluff and some droppings on the top shelf of the larder (that top shelf, I should add to potential houseguests, isnt used for food storage) and also some (very old) droppings behind a wall socket blank when we had the TV aerial repaired.

We bought a couple of mousetraps (the old fashioned spring and thwack kind) but I guess mice dont like vegemite or peanut butter, or are waaay to clever to get splatted in that manner as the traps remained resolutely empty every morning.

Then we started hearing the scratching and russtling in the loft above our bedroom.  Clearly mice upthere, and not just one or two either.

I caught a little grey mouse sniffing about on the kitchen worktop a few weeks back after I got back out of bed cos I couldnt sleep – it threw itself off the worktop like an F16 off an aircraft carrier when I tried to catch it and vanished behind the fridge.

So I bought some more mousetraps – the self contained ratchet them round like a clockwork timer kind and lay them on the worktop and floor by the fridge and for a week – nada.  But this morning – gotcha.  Trap full.

Poor mouse – sorry pal, I’d have happily caught you and put you out in the bushes in the park, but you wouldnt be caught.

So tonight, I’m off to get more mousetraps for the loft (poison ones this time I think, so I dont have to crawl up there every day to check them) to see if we can get rid of the little buggers before they chew through an electrical cable.