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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Yes, well they eat dogs too.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Ordered 3kg of rat poison (Neosorexa), as recommended by @Fairygirl, on Ebay but apparently they can't sell it to someone without the relevant certificate, which is annoying. I've had to cancel the order and buy the more expensive smaller quantity. Nice little earner for somebody.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Don't think it was me. I've never used it @Lizzie27. Maybe @Lyn   :)
    Why would you want to make your own Wagon Wheels? Vile things  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    edited November 2020
    Sorry @Fairygirl, you are right, I think it was Lyn.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    edited November 2020
    Or peppermints - apparently rats don't like the smell. Not sure I'd be willing to rely on that though

    Speaking of things popular in the 70s, can you still buy advocaat? Or custard and white spirit, as we used to know it? Too nasty even for a punishment drink

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Yes - Nigella put some in an ice cream she was making in her new series.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Does anyone else remember Dad's cookies?  They were regular inhabitants of our biscuit tin when I was a child.  When my Canadian relatives visit, they always bring me some.  Why are they no longer sold in the UK?
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Lizzie27 said:
    Ordered 3kg of rat poison (Neosorexa), as recommended by @Fairygirl, on Ebay but apparently they can't sell it to someone without the relevant certificate, which is annoying. I've had to cancel the order and buy the more expensive smaller quantity. Nice little earner for somebody.
    Yes, that happened to someone else recently.  I bought sachets of Neosorexa Gold on line about 5 or 6 weeks ago and no questions asked.  Did the business in my roof space.
    Yes Philippa it was us, good job we’ve still got some from before.  Roland could take the course but you have to attend in person. If he still had the farm he’d probably get the licence.
    we are going to use this one next time.
    https://www.pest-expert.com/pest-expert-formula-b-rat-killer-poison-1kg-10-x-100g-12-p.asp
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    A word to the wise:
    I put some containers in a sheltered spot for the winter. I nearly lost the lot.
    I forgot that the spot was also sheltered from the rain😐
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Two weeks ago, I visited both my sons, (they are long term sick registered disabled) I take food, produce from garden, one my oldest couldn' tget soya milk or paracetamol, I posted him 2 blister packs, in an A4 envelope which I folded in half securly sellotaped, 2 first class stamps, after more than a week,they had not arrived, I sent another 2 strips same packaging, 2 first class stamps, THEY arrived, then he received a card from Royal Mail saying the first pack required an extra, wait for it, sit down people £3.50, I dont think so!!!  Hubby just returned from visit to DIY store all annoyed demanding to know where the pack of blue surgical masks were, well, for a start he's never worn them he doesn't like them, wears a washable one, plenty of them, (bought another pack this week from a very well kown store, it's not just a mask it's ****** mask,informed him most had been used ONCE then disposed of.
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