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twobears

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  1. Did you get that one out of a cracker SMD? Maybe a box that had been in storage since the 1970's?
  2. Oh that's just boring Gudzy I was secretly hoping to inherit a beautiful herd of Dexters! I've just gone and clicked on the ad so no doubt I'll get even more now but the firm just sell stuff related to cattle and sheep. I've got an interest in both but not got time to actually buy any just yet as I work too hard.
  3. You mean you don't know? It's just a metal 'cage' for want of a better word that you use when you need to keep a cow stood still for a while such as when you are giving veterinary treatment etc. Really got no use for one myself at the moment but maybe my long lost Great Aunt Agatha has died and left me her pedigree herd of dairy cattle and I just don't know about it yet?
  4. For the past few weeks Google seems to have decided that I need a cattle crush as the sidebar on some websites I visit keeps featuring them. I haven't even got any cattle so what would I do with it My horse wouldn't appreciate being restrained in it and I can't go out rustling cattle just so that I can use it. Funny thing is, I have actually started to wonder if Google knows something that I don't and I may at some point soon actually need a cattle crush?
  5. I live down miles of single track lanes and they are awful Full of potholes and adverse cambers due to heavy grain trucks and the tractors on steroids that are needed round here to work in the massive fields. I drive as carefully as I possibly can but new potholes appear all the time and it is sometimes easy to get caught out, especially at night.
  6. I'm afraid that I hate charcoal grey suits and anything approaching silver is just yuck in my opinion If you like it though, just wear it and be damned
  7. Just been to have my new tyres fitted and asked the chap at the garage to check my wheel alignment as I felt car was pulling to the right slightly. He got it up on the ramp, put the flags on and showed me that I was right. Don't know why I'm pleased though as it cost me another £30 on top of my original bill
  8. I haven't heard Mr Mouse since his raid on my paracetamol supply and I no longer have the feeling that I'm being watched whenever I'm in the study so I kind of think he is deceased. I am just waiting for the smell, which, sadly, I recognise only too well having had many previous mice die behind the skirting boards. The pest control man at '"Chicken Club" (first rule of Chicken Club, never talk about Chicken Club ) said that released mice just come back into the house and he had sometimes put orange spots on their backs to prove the fact to householders. He said they soon believed him when they kept catching the orange spotted mouse in their trap over and over
  9. I've had some lovely things from them for renovating my cottage and the shop looks brilliant so definitely going to pay them a visit when the weather improves
  10. I'd Better not try to drive round the clock tower then I might visit in the summer to see what the old place is like. I want to go to Broughtons which has, I think, moved from Church Street to Anstey or somewhere nearby.
  11. Is it worth me coming back to visit? my parents still live in Leicestershire but nowhere near Leicester so I come down regularly.
  12. Hmm, not sure. Been in Yorkshire for ages now. Must have last visited Leicester about 8 years ago. Is The Shires still there or did I hear there was a new shopping centre?
  13. Same here pretty well I used to work on Charles Street by the way. Long time ago now though.
  14. For a moment I thought you had taken a photo of a particularly spectacular sunset in Leicester. Think I'm having a blonde moment
  15. Big congratulations, your new home looks lovely I look forward to seeing the garden pics in due course.
  16. Chris, I panelled my study last year and I made a sort of box to cover the central heating boiler pump so I was going to put the bait box in there as there's no way that anyone other than mousie or his chums could access it. Oddly, I haven't heard the patter of tiny feet at all today and I no longer feel as though I am being watched when I'm working in the study so I'm wondering if the paracetamol that he chewed have already killed the little fella? I know what you are saying Chesterfield and it wasn't my number one choice but I'm afraid that I have had to suffer rotting mouse smell many times over the past few years as most of the mice I get die behind the skirting boards without me even knowing that they were there. This one has lasted far longer than any of the others and I really think he may be dead already since today is the first day I've not heard him. The trap hasn't worked and the pest control people told me to forget about it and use the poison for the quickest result. Thanks Squee, I've got two cats and two dogs and would hate them to eat the mouse. They are with me most of the day so I will keep a very close eye on them.
  17. I've been to a lecture on pest control tonight, yes I know you must all feel envious of my exciting and glamorous life I think I must have charmed the chap giving the talk as he presented me with a bag of mouse poison at the end I am an animal lover and feel bad about doing this but I have to catch mousie one way or another before he or she damages something other than just the contents of my handbag
  18. Aaaaw, I hate films with sad endings He was cute but, like you, I can't really face sharing my house with a rodent, no matter how cute.
  19. Alex, that's what my Dad told me to use but I am too soft to use it straight away without giving mousie a fighting chance to do the decent thing I will get a Little Nipper in a few days if I have to although I will feel really guilty if I catch him and it turns out I've murdered a cute little woodmouse. How big a litter tray would I need for that cat
  20. That wouldn't work because it was one of my cats that introduced it to the house in the first place This particular cat normally brings me voles for breakfast (is it wrong that I thank her and tell her I'll eat them later before disposing of them) but sometimes she brings in a live woodmouse which escapes her clutches and she then loses interest and asks me to open a tin of cat food instead. I've spent hours chasing rodents around my kitchen with the cat sitting laughing at me I suspected as much Lexx. I will give it a couple of days and then it will be time to wheel in the big guns. Poor little mousie.
  21. You'd have to wax your toes if you were going to wear those
  22. Oi, have you been on my PhotoBucket account again
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