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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: plumseverywhere on September 06, 2012, 08:13:04 pm
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Batch of plum wine down the drain after we found this little guy swimming in a vat of the stuff - he was very unsteady on his feet and sadly died ::)
(http://i1003.photobucket.com/albums/af154/itsbaaathtime/mousewine.jpg)
Later on though we got to meet....Scouting for Girls!! yay! They're so luvverly (this is my eldest 2 girls, Milli and Eloise - the younger 2 had to leave after the gig as their legs were hurting!)
(http://i1003.photobucket.com/albums/af154/itsbaaathtime/milliweezsfg.jpg)
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Eeek is that a ratty? Yuk.
Cool :thumbsup: for girls meeting scouitng 4 girls wish waas 20 :innocent: oh go on then 30 years younger :roflanim:
mandy :pig:
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Its a fairly large mouse - he was quite cute but having decided he probably poo'd and wee'd in the wine it went down the plug!
Ooh yes SFG - rather lovely I have to say. It was enough to get me in a dress with make up on ;) and yes, I was dancing, jumping and singing along to 'she's so lovely' - poor kids, so embarrassed.
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ooh, I likee! lolol, not the mouse though!
Helen
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Oh well, at least he died happy I suppose :innocent:
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Was it a water vole, I suppose it looks odd because of the alcohol content!
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It actually chewed it way through a towel to get INTO the wine. Just hoping the cat doesn't find its body, she's a nightmare when she has a hangover.
I feel really guilty, but it took me several minutes to compose myself after I saw the poor thing staggering around and OH's ranting about "wasted :censored: [size=78%] wine thanks to that [/size] :censored: vermin" just made me giggle more. I am in the doghouse (again)
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Poor little dot, I hate things dying like that. Looks like a little vole to me too.
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but its got to be a better way to go than in a trap or as fun for a cat. Im not sure id have drunk that wine either plums, but id have had to have a long hard think about it :D
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I suppose that's where we get the saying 'dead drunk'. :innocent:
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Makes me laugh when you say 'sadly he died' I doubt very much he was sad :roflanim:
And let's be honest he wouldn't feel any pain would he
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I suppose that's where we get the saying 'dead drunk'. :innocent:
or 'rat-arsed' :D
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Are we sure it's a rat, it's got a look of a newt about it.
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As i read the post i couldn't help singing " mouse piss wine" to Elke Brooks' song , 'lilac wine ' ! Shame about the wine though plums , even though i don't drink alco- hic , alco-hic , alco-hic-hol !
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Well had we kept the batch it could have been the 'mouse wine' (house wine, geddit?!) the picture makes it look much bigger than it was, it was a tiny mouse but very cute. And I honestly did what I could to save it and dry it out but when I got back from school pick up he'd died.
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They used to say cider was no good unless there was a rat in the barrel, the alchohol should have killed off any bugs , he'll never rot if you bury him as he was well pickled.! :excited:
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I've got the mouse guilts again today...
Daughter number 2 informed me that the cat had a 'rat' in the lounge and that it had attacked snowball. So I started moving furniture etc to try and get this thing out. couldnt' find it though.
carried on with a few jobs then took hoover into lounge, as I moved one of OH's heavy duty speakers I found the very flat mouse where I had pulled it forward, mouse had obviously snuck under to hide and splat, i put it back down. I will not go to heaven at this rate. I am a bad mouse murderer this week.
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kill them all and feed them to the cats they are only there to steal the goats food!!!
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R.I.P. little rodent. :bouquet:
This should be a warning to all rodents who drink to excess, and the picture posted on
all cellar doors.
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Reminds me of a couple of weeks ago when I went to bed - thought I heard a rustle from behind the bed, pulled it out a bit, listened carefully but nothing more, so shoved the bed back and got in. Next morning was hoovering, moved bed to do behind it and found one very flat baby mouse. :gloomy: Guess Rio had taken it in as a gift as the window had been open that evening. :cat:
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;D ;D ;D
I only seem to find strange cats in my bedroom - and I haven't managed to flatten any of them yet!
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My poor old mum has just handed me a mouse in a large cup. She said "I know I'm slow but I'm really proud of myself as I managed to catch this one myself!!"
It was as stiff as a board!! daren't tell her that though ;D [size=78%] [/size]
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:innocent: Well - a lot of people would run a mile when they see a mouse, dead or not... So good on her for "catching" this one!
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That is very true, Ina! She is also feeling very sad today as she managed to run over a large spider she was trying to round up in her electric wheelchair. Sooner or later, word will get out not to visit our house if you are a bug, spider, mouse or any other vulnerable critter.
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Think I need an electric wheelchair if they are good at zapping spiders. :innocent:
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They also appear to be good at ripping off skirting boards, denting fridges, scuffing freshly painted doorways and running over the toes of annoying daughters. At least my mum's is.
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I know about them running over toes. I have several damaged nail beds dating from the days I worked with adults with severe physical disabilities. The worst was when someone parked on me. I said, ~"You're on my foot." "Oh sorry," he said without moving. Ouch.
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That is very true, Ina! She is also feeling very sad today as she managed to run over a large spider she was trying to round up in her electric wheelchair.
The mental picture of that has at least given me a good giggle! ;D
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Last night a large spider climbed the wall above the door and headed across the ceiling directly for me. I had to run under it to escape. When I looked back it had gone. I thought it had jumped on me!!! Fortunately it had gone behind the curtains.
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Fortunately it had gone behind the curtains.
Is it still there?
Sally