La Lutte Continue...
Jan. 11th, 2021 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloThe rats were back last night- Scamper, scamper, scamper. We've stopped them accessing the cupboards but they're still getting into the walls and floors.
I surveyed the house this morning. It's a complicated building- made up of sections dating from three different eras (c1820, c1960 and c.1980)- with interior walls that were once exterior walls- and roofs pitched every-which-a-way- and I was finding it hard to work out how it all fits together. In the end I decided the interior rat runs don't actually join up- and different animals are coming into the building through different holes. One of these- the old extractor fan- has been dealt with- and this morning I stuffed another of them with copper wire wool. We'll see how that does.
The roof space I had my head stuck into this morning contains several abandoned wasps nests. Do wasps and rats cohabit or fight? I suspect the latter- and that the wasps would probably win. Come back wasps, all is forgiven; I'd rather have you for neighbours; you're quieter.
I surveyed the house this morning. It's a complicated building- made up of sections dating from three different eras (c1820, c1960 and c.1980)- with interior walls that were once exterior walls- and roofs pitched every-which-a-way- and I was finding it hard to work out how it all fits together. In the end I decided the interior rat runs don't actually join up- and different animals are coming into the building through different holes. One of these- the old extractor fan- has been dealt with- and this morning I stuffed another of them with copper wire wool. We'll see how that does.
The roof space I had my head stuck into this morning contains several abandoned wasps nests. Do wasps and rats cohabit or fight? I suspect the latter- and that the wasps would probably win. Come back wasps, all is forgiven; I'd rather have you for neighbours; you're quieter.
