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Can I just say...
Tuesday, 15 January 2008 03:22 pmAAAAAAAAAAARGH MICE.
My room SMELLS of MICE. It is driving me BANANAS. The humane traps I ordered the other day have been dispatched but not arrived yet. Likewise the vacuum cleaner bags which I will need to get rid of the traces the horrible creatures leave behind (I know it's not necessarily great to vacuum up mouse poo but how the heck else do you get it off the carpet?)
I am going to have to go on a mouse-removal rampage, and may even resort to poison eventually (though if I do, I might put it in a large humane trap so that the mice die in there and not under the floorboards, in the walls etc.) as I just need the wretched things GONE GONE GONE and not fucking coming back. they are starting to EAT MY BOOKS and that is the unforgiveable sin in my residence. They are rampaging over my desk and probably weeing on my keyboard. I should get some hand sanitiser :( Actually I think there is a chemist up the road, I might head out and investigate it.
I really want to have a clean, non-mouse-stinky room for when Dave arrives to visit on Saturday but I am worried it's just not going to happen. Does anyone know of a shop in Reading where I could buy bags for an ancient Electrolux vacuum cleaner in person? Also, mint oil (which I hear mice dislike)?
I am looking into buying some wire wool for blocking up holes they could get in through (but it seems quite expensive for the large amount I will need). However, a major problem area is going to be the old fireplace in my room, which has been boarded up but there's a biggish gap at the bottom where the mice could get in and out easily. I have no idea what's behind there but it is probably old and holey. I think I might have to get landlady's permission and possibly help to take the board off, check, clean and seal the area behind it, and board it up again more solidly (part of the boarding is a bit loose anyway, so it could do with sorting out).
I dread to think what other things from my stack of boxes they have been eating away at. I hate them so much right now.
My room SMELLS of MICE. It is driving me BANANAS. The humane traps I ordered the other day have been dispatched but not arrived yet. Likewise the vacuum cleaner bags which I will need to get rid of the traces the horrible creatures leave behind (I know it's not necessarily great to vacuum up mouse poo but how the heck else do you get it off the carpet?)
I am going to have to go on a mouse-removal rampage, and may even resort to poison eventually (though if I do, I might put it in a large humane trap so that the mice die in there and not under the floorboards, in the walls etc.) as I just need the wretched things GONE GONE GONE and not fucking coming back. they are starting to EAT MY BOOKS and that is the unforgiveable sin in my residence. They are rampaging over my desk and probably weeing on my keyboard. I should get some hand sanitiser :( Actually I think there is a chemist up the road, I might head out and investigate it.
I really want to have a clean, non-mouse-stinky room for when Dave arrives to visit on Saturday but I am worried it's just not going to happen. Does anyone know of a shop in Reading where I could buy bags for an ancient Electrolux vacuum cleaner in person? Also, mint oil (which I hear mice dislike)?
I am looking into buying some wire wool for blocking up holes they could get in through (but it seems quite expensive for the large amount I will need). However, a major problem area is going to be the old fireplace in my room, which has been boarded up but there's a biggish gap at the bottom where the mice could get in and out easily. I have no idea what's behind there but it is probably old and holey. I think I might have to get landlady's permission and possibly help to take the board off, check, clean and seal the area behind it, and board it up again more solidly (part of the boarding is a bit loose anyway, so it could do with sorting out).
I dread to think what other things from my stack of boxes they have been eating away at. I hate them so much right now.
