And so to the annual mouse-fest.

In the cupboard under the stairs I found an honest-to-god mouse hole. A round tunnel eaten into on of the original walls of the house which are over two feet thick. They're made of mostly rubble, so it's easy for the little fuckers to make a path for them selves, but enterprising nonetheless. They ate the wallpaper off the wall in quite a neat arc on either side too. They like wallpaper paste, apparently.

I set a trap and had a victim in about an hour. I set the trap again and caught another one a couple of hours later.  This one wasn't dead, only injured and I had to take it outside and bash its little head in.

We have had rats around the house too. Against my protests Sally laid poison, and a dead rat showed up on our driveway about a week or so later. Not thinking, I hooshed it into the hedge with a stick. Now I remember the detailed exhortations on the poison to burn or bury dead rats to avoid poisoning other animals.

I'll have to rummage in the hedge next time I'm home in daylight.

Paddy has been sick again. Vomiting and a raging temperature and off his feed since Sunday. I'm constantly amazed by his good nature when sick. He threw up all over himself and after we'd cleaned him up, he said thank-you.

It's OK kid, we wouldn't leave you lying in your own vomit.

I was pointed at this. And I think I'll do it. I keep meaning to put up some images on this site and use pictures more but lack of a digital camera or scanner prevents me from getting very far.

There is a scanner I can borrow but the general state of our photos would make me mad to go through them.  I really want to organise them and put them into albums and so on, but there's loads of them.

I also consider from time to time taking up photography as a more serious hobby, but I don't think I have the time.  There is lots of gear (good thing) but it can be very expensive (bad thing).

Yet another thing I'll never get around to.

And on the subject of getting things organised, we are coming to the realisation that there's a baby on the way! So we really need to get that fireplace built, move the kitchen, lay the new floor and sort out the stupid plumbing before it's too late!

Time! Time! And money!

Gah.