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Wondered what people were getting for their spouses in case I can get a better idea for she who must be placated.
After scratching various parts of my anatomy for several weeks for an idea I think I have cracked it. I'm going to buy her 2 galvanised dustbins.
She likes feeding the wild birds and stores the food in the garden shed. Last year the local rats discovered this bounteous store and chewed through the bottom of the door to get to it. The main stock of food is inside a couple of plastic bins, but they were feeding off the stuff she drops when filling all the various feeders.
I plated the door with some old number plates, so they eat through the threshold under the door. Right you little buggers I thought I'll stop you so I put two paving slabs on the floor just inside the door and used some tile offcuts cemented to the threshold
That put them off for about a week until they chewed through the floor halfway along one side. Enough is enough says I, I'm going to get some poison. 'Oh no' says she 'can't you trap them and release them somewhere else?' No says I its either the rats get it or you stop feeding the birds - so the rats got it and the new hole was covered over.
No further problems until this week when I found the floor covered in rat ****. They haven't got in the old entry points so will have to pull everything out to find where they are getting in.
As its seems I not going to win and will probably finish up with a shed like a gorgonzola cheese, I thought that if the bird seed and peanuts were stored outside at least any spillage won't matter, at least my shed will be left alone.
As she won't give up feeding the birds that's how I got the idea of the two bins for her xmas present, brilliant.
P.S. If I am not on the forum after the 25th you will know I didn't survive after the exchange of presents on Christmas morning
After scratching various parts of my anatomy for several weeks for an idea I think I have cracked it. I'm going to buy her 2 galvanised dustbins.
She likes feeding the wild birds and stores the food in the garden shed. Last year the local rats discovered this bounteous store and chewed through the bottom of the door to get to it. The main stock of food is inside a couple of plastic bins, but they were feeding off the stuff she drops when filling all the various feeders.
I plated the door with some old number plates, so they eat through the threshold under the door. Right you little buggers I thought I'll stop you so I put two paving slabs on the floor just inside the door and used some tile offcuts cemented to the threshold
That put them off for about a week until they chewed through the floor halfway along one side. Enough is enough says I, I'm going to get some poison. 'Oh no' says she 'can't you trap them and release them somewhere else?' No says I its either the rats get it or you stop feeding the birds - so the rats got it and the new hole was covered over.
No further problems until this week when I found the floor covered in rat ****. They haven't got in the old entry points so will have to pull everything out to find where they are getting in.
As its seems I not going to win and will probably finish up with a shed like a gorgonzola cheese, I thought that if the bird seed and peanuts were stored outside at least any spillage won't matter, at least my shed will be left alone.
As she won't give up feeding the birds that's how I got the idea of the two bins for her xmas present, brilliant.
P.S. If I am not on the forum after the 25th you will know I didn't survive after the exchange of presents on Christmas morning
