[Ina]

Oh aren't cats wonderful... I'm currently decorating (trying to) my living room. For the past 3.5 years it's been used as a box room - nowhere else to store all the stuff I brought with me when "downsizing", and it's taken me that long to get rid of enough of it to at least make a start with the wall papering!

Anyway, for the first time in 4 years today I sat on the sofa. And then, when I moved it away to get at the wall, I found I'd been sitting atop a skeleton.... Arghhh!! A very dead bird, no more than bones and a little skin, really. Should have had that for Halloween to scare the kids out there!

[jaykay]

 

[Blackbird]

Aaah - don't you just love them? We had some people round for dinner one evening and were (unusually) sitting at the dining table. I felt a bump underneath the rug under the table and cautiously lifted the corner with my foot - and found a very dead, mummified mouse. Needless to say I dropped the rug back down and said  nothing........

[Lesley Silvester]

I used to sweep and wash my dining room floor every evening once the kids were in bed, but just a quick job.  Once a week I pulled out the furniture to do it thoroughly.  That was when I found it.  A dead blackbird, heaving with maggots.  Eurgh!

[Ina]

Yep, that's the worst... The flies and maggots they attract. This one was well past that stage - so it must have been a breeding ground last summer - or the summer before that... Let's hope I don't find more - I still have furniture to move!

[HelenVF]

lol.  We moved the coocker once to find a very flat, desicated, mole!

Helen

[MikeM]

our dining room is piled high with books (we're 2nd hand book dealers) and pretty routinely now, when we move a pile we find a body in some state of decay.

[sabrina]

We found dead mice under the floor boards when we were replacing heating pipes.

[MAK]

Our dog can only get upstairs if it follows us to the loo. Today we made up a spare bed only to find a dried out grass pellet that the dog must have coughed up. Yuck.
dead mice ? 13 of them fell on top of me when I pulled down (towards me) a hardboard ceiling. i left one hanging in cobwebs just to impress the OH who had been on the sunbed.

[RUSTYME]

The best one i ever did , apart from the odd mouse now and then , was when i lived in London .
 It must have been when i was about 15 or so , so about 40 years ago , when i used to go and watch the boat race .
This particular time i went and was doing my usual explore thing as i wandered along the bank of the Thames , when i came upon a roped off area , with a sign saying 'keep out' , which to me reads ' i have got to see what's in there ! ' , anyway , under the rope i go , down the muddy slope , had a look around , a few tarps here and there , some wheelbarrows etc . So not much of interest "just a building site" i thought .  So i went to the other side of this 15' deep pit i was in to climb out . I got half way up and slid down onto a pile of sticks ? Only they weren't sticks , they were bones ! Human bones , legs , arms , skulls the lot . Not just one or two , but thousands of them .
I got out of there pretty quick .
Turns out i had gone into an excavated plague pit of the 14th-16th century .
 It seems they used old dry docks to dump the plague victims in at some time .
 They find new ones every now and then when new building work starts .
 So if you see a sign saying 'keep out' it may be best if you do !
Ring a ring of roses ! lol .

[Plantoid]

Oh aren't cats wonderful... I'm currently decorating (trying to) my living room. For the past 3.5 years it's been used as a box room - nowhere else to store all the stuff I brought with me when "downsizing", and it's taken me that long to get rid of enough of it to at least make a start with the wall papering!

Anyway, for the first time in 4 years today I sat on the sofa. And then, when I moved it away to get at the wall, I found I'd been sitting atop a skeleton.... Arghhh!! A very dead bird, no more than bones and a little skin, really. Should have had that for Halloween to scare the kids out there!

We just posted up a picture of Jimmy Saville  none came a knocking 

[Lesley Silvester]

Russ , has it ever occurred to you that this might be the cause of your health problems?   

[RUSTYME]

Lol , just been out and painted a cross on my door .
I like the past , but i will give that bit a miss if i can .
 

[Lesley Silvester]

Lol , just been out and painted a cross on my door .
I like the past , but i will give that bit a miss if i can .