Woodparts
Overdrive!
Would you believe it?
Me and Shola (GSD) were returning from a tab in the hills and in need of a cuppa and bowl of water respectively. Being the well equipped expedition vehicle he is, Hobbes, the 101, was to provide all of the facilities required to ensure sucour to his two crew. So water in bolw, water in kettle, kettle on Fokker (gas stove with clout) and then seek out brew kit. Brew kit found in correct location and cup collected from cupboard.
Hello what's? this thinks me. A flurry of snow and black bits falls from the cup (58 pattern bucket). On closer examination I find that it is in fact shredded kitchen towel and black placcy bag?? So I drag the stowage bins out of the cupboard and investigate further. More kitchen towel, more placcy bag and some other unidentified deposits...... Mouse Kac!!!!!
Further inspection reveals that said mouse has been making him/herself well at home over the cold snap. Helping himself to my dried provisions, chocolate, packets of soup, oxo cubes and anything else the little bu66er could manage.
Anyway, on returning home I swung by the ubiquitous garden centre to purchase some heavy duty mouse disposer. I left all of the gear in the truck and also a little present of some nice blue nuggets to sustain my little chum through the comming days. Two days later I checked the cache and found it all gone... haha!! (Dr Evil cackle) I left some more bait and went to bed.
Next day bait still there so fairly sure mouse has crawled away to expire somewhere where the smell will permeate the whole truck, so busy self cleaning truck out.
While clearing out the wood box (which feeds the wood burner on the rear left wheelarch), guess what!? I found a stash of blue nuggets beside a nice little nest made of kitchen towel, black placcy bags and cuppa soup packets... What do i have to do to defeat this little tyke? Not happy with taking liberties with my kit but taking the pi55 with my attempts to dispose of his company. So do I:
1. Sit in the truck all night, bleary eyed, with my trusty Webley Hurricane trained on the wood store?
2. Rent next door's cat for a couple of evnings and then put up with the rank smell of cat's pils forever more (you ever tried getting rid of that smell??) or
3. just repeat the process with more nuggets and chocolate spread as an incentive?
Answers on a postcard.........
Me and Shola (GSD) were returning from a tab in the hills and in need of a cuppa and bowl of water respectively. Being the well equipped expedition vehicle he is, Hobbes, the 101, was to provide all of the facilities required to ensure sucour to his two crew. So water in bolw, water in kettle, kettle on Fokker (gas stove with clout) and then seek out brew kit. Brew kit found in correct location and cup collected from cupboard.
Hello what's? this thinks me. A flurry of snow and black bits falls from the cup (58 pattern bucket). On closer examination I find that it is in fact shredded kitchen towel and black placcy bag?? So I drag the stowage bins out of the cupboard and investigate further. More kitchen towel, more placcy bag and some other unidentified deposits...... Mouse Kac!!!!!
Further inspection reveals that said mouse has been making him/herself well at home over the cold snap. Helping himself to my dried provisions, chocolate, packets of soup, oxo cubes and anything else the little bu66er could manage.
Anyway, on returning home I swung by the ubiquitous garden centre to purchase some heavy duty mouse disposer. I left all of the gear in the truck and also a little present of some nice blue nuggets to sustain my little chum through the comming days. Two days later I checked the cache and found it all gone... haha!! (Dr Evil cackle)
I left some more bait and went to bed.Next day bait still there so fairly sure mouse has crawled away to expire somewhere where the smell will permeate the whole truck, so busy self cleaning truck out.
While clearing out the wood box (which feeds the wood burner on the rear left wheelarch), guess what!? I found a stash of blue nuggets beside a nice little nest made of kitchen towel, black placcy bags and cuppa soup packets... What do i have to do to defeat this little tyke? Not happy with taking liberties with my kit but taking the pi55 with my attempts to dispose of his company. So do I:
1. Sit in the truck all night, bleary eyed, with my trusty Webley Hurricane trained on the wood store?
2. Rent next door's cat for a couple of evnings and then put up with the rank smell of cat's pils forever more (you ever tried getting rid of that smell??) or
3. just repeat the process with more nuggets and chocolate spread as an incentive?
Answers on a postcard.........
