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Page 5 todays Sunday Times life section stars fn even a photo. Congrat's 
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Yay for Fiona! Thanks for letting us know Seth!
I'll try that again!
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Hooray for Fiona, my heroine, for saving me from a mouse-takeover in my kitchen. 3 dispatched in 24 hours........
Congratulations on the article.
"The beautiful is as useful as the useful...perhaps more so."
from Les Miserables
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yes well done. Tried to find it online but they wanted money for me to see it.
Wow big mouse problem you had, do you have a 
they make mice 
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Sorry Aly but it was my cat "Button" who bought them into the house & then let them go so she could play with them on a longer basis.......they ran away & hid & now come out to haunt me & leave all their mess around. 
"The beautiful is as useful as the useful...perhaps more so."
from Les Miserables
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mine still bring gifts and I chase about trying to catch them which I mostly do then release them in the garden! OH thinks I am mad but I cannot kill them!
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yes my cat likes to leave his toys alive in the house and has kindly gifted us with a solitary one at the moment, were just waiting for the 2 furry assassins who have the kitchen staked out to make the effort , but snoozing with one eye open on the top of the puter just isnt convincing me....lol
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Aly said:
mine still bring gifts and I chase about trying to catch them which I mostly do then release them in the garden! OH thinks I am mad but I cannot kill them!
Mmmmm! ??? Would you feel & act the same way about rats Aly ? I poison them I'm afraid. If you keep chickens you will surely have these filthy visitors at some point. If you don't kill them they breed (which they do with great vigour).
My house is made of wychert (a mixture of a kind of clay & straw) so I have to be very careful about what lives inside the sheltering walls as any holes start threatening it's stability. It is very expensive to repair as it needs a specialist builder & there are few of these.
"The beautiful is as useful as the useful...perhaps more so."
from Les Miserables
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well, I have got the Sunday Times but cannot find the 'Life' section (for the life of me!) Have the complete paper including all the usual sections, any ideas where it hides please ?
I have reached an age where my train of thought often leaves the station without me...
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probably but no rats here as the farmers shoot them. We once had a chap looking like a Mexican bandit who came in search of a large rat reported by our neighbour. He went down to the stream at the back of us where the cows drink and we took off out of the way! Heard he had caught it and it was a bit like a fishermans estimate lol
I am just a big softie but I do swot flies!
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paperman said:
well, I have got the Sunday Times but cannot find the 'Life' section (for the life of me!) Have the complete paper including all the usual sections, any ideas where it hides please ?
Sorry Chris , the curse of 2 sunday papers should have said Telegraph. Close my big mouth wider 
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I shall go and raid my Mother's Sunday Times tomorrow¦.well done Fiona! oh, just seen Seth's correction...but still congratulations Fiona!
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Sadly don't have the Sunday Telegraph so had a look on their web site to see if I could find it, but I got lost as if it was Hampton Court Maize (or is it Maze?) so congrats Fn but have given up the chase.
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Definitely Maze Chris, though I have seen a maze made of Maize. I've had a look on line too, but thy don't seem to put the Sunday paper on the web. Perhaps someone will photograph it for us?
I'll try that again!
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Yes, we had an amazing Maize Maze here at Southwold earlier in the year. Thanks for looking TA, glad I am not the only one not to find it..
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