Hi Hosta. I've only now read your post - we have been into town doing our weekly shop.
We saw our saw our first brown snake for the season when we were driving up to the house. My favourite time of year - not! It just casually slid away from the wheel of the vehicle and disappeared into the tiniest hole you could imagine under a rock. Hubby grabbed his iPhone and tried for a photo. Don't know of he was in time or not. Haven't had a chance to ask him yet. He bought another couple of mouse traps - this time for the shed. They get into everything down there. Hope you had some sleep..
Oh dear.... The cooker manufacturer says it's unlikely that the smell will ever go, even if they find the carcass. £300 + vat to get them to come out.
The insurance company tell me it's not covered. Firstly they said it would only be covered it the mouse had chewed through a wire. Then they said the policy excludes infestations (it's only one mouse that the cat brought it) and then they said it doesn't cover any damage by vermin. More loop holes than a fishing net (and 2.5 hours trying to get through).
It still honks!
Not sure whether to pay the £300 or bite the bullet and get a new oven. Getting a tad bored of sandwiches for tea!
Tell the cooker company they're talking out of their bottoms!!! Of course the smell will go! We had hundreds of dead mice trapped under the floorboards of the old farmhouse we lived in as children. They stunk for a while but soon dried out. When the house was eventually renovated there were lots of little dried-out corpses - not smelly at all.
Pretty obvious the cooker company think you're gullible enough to believe them and will then buy another cooker from them.
The best thing you can do is use your oven often and speed up the desiccation process, open some windows and use some air fresheners in the meantime.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I once had that smell in my utility room - couldn't find anything, pulled the washing machine out and the tumbler dryer - nothing. Disinfected all the floors, still couldn't get rid of the smell. 10 days or so later the smell started to disappear and about 3 weeks later I had to put my welly boots on (having forgotten about the smell). When I put my boot on I could feel something in the bottom and I couldn't work out what it was - I thought maybe I had left a sock in there. I took the boot off, tipped it upside down and, needless to say, it wasn't a sock that fell out. I screamed so loud my son came running - at first he thought the mouse was still alive because it was moving. Being a boy he investigated more closely and found it had no head so it couldn't be alive - it was the maggots making it move . I threw my welly boots away and haven't stopped washing my feet since
Diblinschtat - made me laugh too - that too is something that happened occasionally in the old farmhouse where we lived - Pa taught us never to put our wellies on without tipping them upside down first.
That's why one of these is such a useful item if you live in the countryside.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Pat, deffo with the peanut butter. Best bait ever.
Hi Hosta. I've only now read your post - we have been into town doing our weekly shop.
We saw our saw our first brown snake for the season when we were driving up to the house. My favourite time of year - not! It just casually slid away from the wheel of the vehicle and disappeared into the tiniest hole you could imagine under a rock. Hubby grabbed his iPhone and tried for a photo. Don't know of he was in time or not. Haven't had a chance to ask him yet. He bought another couple of mouse traps - this time for the shed. They get into everything down there. Hope you had some sleep..
This is the trap. Don't know if it available over there, but there would be something similar, I'm sure. Hubby missed the photo is the snake.
Oh dear.... The cooker manufacturer says it's unlikely that the smell will ever go, even if they find the carcass. £300 + vat to get them to come out.
The insurance company tell me it's not covered. Firstly they said it would only be covered it the mouse had chewed through a wire. Then they said the policy excludes infestations (it's only one mouse that the cat brought it) and then they said it doesn't cover any damage by vermin. More loop holes than a fishing net (and 2.5 hours trying to get through).
It still honks!
Not sure whether to pay the £300 or bite the bullet and get a new oven. Getting a tad bored of sandwiches for tea!
Got to laugh.... Otherwise I'd have a small sob!!
Tell the cooker company they're talking out of their bottoms!!! Of course the smell will go! We had hundreds of dead mice trapped under the floorboards of the old farmhouse we lived in as children. They stunk for a while but soon dried out. When the house was eventually renovated there were lots of little dried-out corpses - not smelly at all.
Pretty obvious the cooker company think you're gullible enough to believe them and will then buy another cooker from them.
The best thing you can do is use your oven often and speed up the desiccation process, open some windows and use some air fresheners in the meantime.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I once had that smell in my utility room - couldn't find anything, pulled the washing machine out and the tumbler dryer - nothing. Disinfected all the floors, still couldn't get rid of the smell. 10 days or so later the smell started to disappear and about 3 weeks later I had to put my welly boots on (having forgotten about the smell). When I put my boot on I could feel something in the bottom and I couldn't work out what it was - I thought maybe I had left a sock in there. I took the boot off, tipped it upside down and, needless to say, it wasn't a sock that fell out. I screamed so loud my son came running - at first he thought the mouse was still alive because it was moving. Being a boy he investigated more closely and found it had no head so it couldn't be alive - it was the maggots making it move
. I threw my welly boots away and haven't stopped washing my feet since
Sorry - realise my story is not particularly helpful - just thought I would share it with you over breakfast
Might not be "particularly helpful" , but it made me laugh. Thanks.
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Diblinschtat - made me laugh too - that too is something that happened occasionally in the old farmhouse where we lived - Pa taught us never to put our wellies on without tipping them upside down first.
That's why one of these is such a useful item if you live in the countryside.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.