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[LadyArowana]

How can you be sure that it was the same rat?

By the know-all expression on its face.

I thought maybe it was because of what it was wearing!

 

[Penners]

Oh yes, that too. I forgot.

 

[Gareth Hughes]

I've got my beady eye on you! :wink:

By sheer coincidence I was looking out of the window, watching the birds on the bird-table today, while talking to my daughter on the phone. As I watched, a rat emerged from the hedge, shinned up the pole of the bird-table and crammed its mouth full of the stale cake that Mrs P had left out. It obviously couldn't be bothered to climb down the pole again, because it then launched itself off the bird table (a height of about 4ft 6in), using a patch of herbaceous evergreen as soft-landing cushion!

I thought at first that it had done this as a desperate measure, because something had scared it. But no - while I chatted to my daughter the rat did this a total of three times.

Their intelligence is scary. Time for the trusty air rifle.

I can't believe there's stale cake at Penners Towers. If you two were having difficulty finishing it off, there's a host of hungry PPUKers who'd be up for a winter cake party.

 

[vicky whitworth]

Penners tells me to stop watching my rat and the next thing I know it's shinning up a pole in East Angular. I'm so confused.

 

[Penners]

I can't believe there's stale cake at Penners Towers.

Not any more, there isn't. Our skydiving rat has seen to that.

 

[Zebra]

Hang on, there's a hole in the side of that bag of sultanas. And a hole in the side of that bag of pasta. What can this mean? It must mean I've got mice!
What have next door's four cats been doing all this time?
Aha, maybe the mice are getting in from the churchyard through the hole where I'm halfway through inserting the dpc. The cats don't go in the churchyard. Don't know why, perhaps they're anti-religious.
Oh no, now I shall have to decant all packeted food into non-chewable containers.

 

[Penners]

I shall have to decant all packeted food into non-chewable containers.

Or block up the hole.

:roll:

 

[Lime]

It is always likely that holes left in a building will allow either mice or rats into the property.
I know of several instances of rats getting into kitchens (fortunately not mine) and living there.

 

[JoceAndChris]

Mine just walk in through the door! Fortunately they usually turn back when confronted with this typical look of utter disdain and general malevolence

For a packet of jumbo prawns he'll sort out Zebra's mousey problems!

 

[Penners]

Listen, for a packet of jumbo prawns (in a garlic sauce), I'll do it!

 

[Zebra]

Penners, packet of jumbo prawns in garlic sauce is waiting here for you, just as soon as you'd like to pop over and sort out the mice problem. Tell you what, you could do it by blocking up the hole where I'm doing the dpc, the best way to block up the hole might be to actually finish the dpc.. You will? Marvellous.

 

[Penners]

Regrettably, Zebra, Snorbans is off-limits to me, ever since the embarrassing incident with the haggis, the wine bottle and the feather duster.

Otherwise I'd be delighted...

 

[Zebra]

That wasn't you was it?! That incident has entered local folklore! Yes, I can quite see why you must stay away! Oh well, what a shame.

 

[worms]

Regrettably, Zebra, Snorbans is off-limits to me, ever since the embarrassing incident with the haggis, the wine bottle and the feather duster.

I think I was at that Burns Supper!

 

[LadyArowana]

Regrettably, Zebra, Snorbans is off-limits to me, ever since the embarrassing incident with the haggis, the wine bottle and the feather duster.

I think I was at that Burns Supper!

The circumstances surrounding the back injury have always been shrouded in mystery, and it all makes perfect sense now, no wonder he doesn't like to talk about it.

 

[worms]

...no wonder he doesn't like to talk about it.

But (to come back on topic) you should see his mimed performance of "To a mouse"!

 

[Penners]

you should see his mimed performance of "To a mouse"!

Just don't sit in the first three rows - I tend to get a bit carried away with my Scottish throat sounds.

I can roll my Rs quite effectively though.