Garden guests

[Mandart]

OH MY Mandart!
You have a tite rope in your yard.

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LOL

My life is such a fine balance I have to practice managing it in the garden....

[moonwitch]

I sympathise - the year before last was our worst year, where the table and chairs are we used to have a shed - they completely burrowed underneath it and we had to remove it - my stepson took his rifle upstairs and over a period of two months killed nearly 40 rats

Billy would love to be shooting rats but when we got permission for our scooter shed, someone took a photo and sent it to the local council when they reported us for having the shed. Can you imagine what that person would do if Billy was spotted shooting rats?

[Mandart]

Oh dear, nice things neighbours aren't they...

[Policequilts]

My life is such a fine balance I have to practice managing it in the garden....

I was so positive that you entertained your guests while sitting at the table.


Only one year that I had rats in the back part of the garage.
Had to bait them and then dispose of them.

I am so far out in the country and not close to the farms where the grain would attract them to my place.

[Mandart]

I was so positive that you entertained your guests while sitting at the table.

Oh no don't go in for any of that entertaining people mullarky.... humbug to that!

[moonwitch]

Oh no don't go in for any of that entertaining people mullarky.... humbug to that!

[Mandart]

Oh I know, had cause to go into Maidstone today and there were people everywhere - someone even parked next to my car!

[sucadot]

Commiserations to you with the rats, ugh!

[sucadot]

Lovely hoglets, Sue!
When a boy I kept hedgehogs as pets - and bred them! We had the old drystone walls to our garden as did most of the neighbouring houses and other streets so there were plenty of snails for them. I'd supplement that diet with dogfood from time to time. (NO bread and milk please! They are carnivorous!)-
The young ones would be sold to people in local streets at half-a-crown a time. (For those too young to remember real money, half-a-crown was 12.5 pence...there were 8 in a pound. As the usual weekly wage for a working man was about £5 then from time to time there was a significant leap in the family budget.

One of the boars (his name was "Dizzy", so-named because he had arrived with a friend who had brought him downhill on a bike. "I rode slowly, so he would not get dizzy," he'd said) used to follow my mother along the garden path as she pegged out the washing, nipping at her heels. This was an indication the he wanted extra to eat!

Thanks, Sue, for bringing back those early days! Wonderful!

And thank you Ian - the story of your mother being nipped on the heels brought back childhood memories for me too.
An aunt and uncle kept chickens in their long back garden, and all was well until uncle brought home two geese.
They would delight in pecking the back of my aunt's leg when she was pegging out washing. It sealed their fate - you could say they cooked their own goose ....

[moonwitch]

Commiserations to you with the rats, ugh!

Thankfully, it was stepdaughter and her friend who found them so I didn't have too

I'm having to get up extra early tomorrow as the pied piper is dropping by