Anyone getting stocked up on food etc just in case?

StevieJ

Mr.Brown wrote: »

No...but it will feel like it.

Sorry, very old joke.

I will set em up, you can knock em down

BitterAndTwisted

StevieJ wrote: »

With a diet like that are you planning to live for ever

Eh, I'm not a meat-eater, that wasn't an exact inventory and I did say that I've been buying fresh veggies, eggs and milk. I enjoy quite a varied and nutritious diet, thanks.

fc123

vivatifosi wrote: »

I've never heard of battery duck, to me they're always swimming in the local pond or flying to Canada. Must be a vegetarian thing. In fact, if I'd read that sentence by itself, to me it would belong in an exchange like this:

(me in a hardware store in Derbyshire).... What's this Double A thingy?

(store worker).. It's a battery, duck

Majority of ducks reared in UK are Battery and never see a pond unfortunately.
I did read that there are no large producers of free range duck at all but can't find link.

The snow is getting me down at the mo to be honest...I don't know why as it's so pretty........must be the cold and OH can't pop down as roads are too full on.

treliac

fc123 wrote: »

Majority of ducks reared in UK are Battery and never see a pond unfortunately.
I did read that there are no large producers of free range duck at all but can't find link.

How sad is this? If I ever think about the possibility of eating meat, it's never long before something reminds me why I could never do so.

dopester

dopester wrote: »

Mice can't easily climb up walls to get up in to lofts can they?

I'm not going to enter further discussion about this, because it's very embarrassing and I'm going straight out now with bags to the rubbish tip, but it turns out you were all correct after all.

Went into the loft last night and was wondering why my spare big bag of pipettes was open, scattered about, and many with holes in the squeezy section. Then heard the movement of small rodent feet.

Ventured further into the loft this morning and much of my stash (except the tins) have been raided.. and droppings everywhere. I only added lot of rice and stuff after being warned about the risks on this thread - so I'm really feeling stupid about it. Some of the rice and spaghetti bags are almost empty. And I wrapped rice/spaghetti in additional plastic bags with sellotape. Mice have sharper teeth and are more determined than I expected. Small black mice droppings all over - yuk. Don't tell my mum.. she'd go ballistic.

mandragora wrote: »

Mice got up into our loft. They're squirmy little beggars. A bit of Christmas cake on the mousetrap sorted them out, though. I'd have felt guilty but for the fact I hated lying in bed listening to the gnawing sounds.....

oldMcDonald wrote: »

Mice can and do get into lofts. The little !!!!!!s ate through my stash of candles grrrr - thats why I now store every item they may deem edible in tins.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

The Christmas decorations brought down from the loft here show enough signs of being munched for me to conclude that the little sods can climb with absolute ease.

lostinrates

Oh dopester...poor you. I would have assured you they could and do had I been about.

Davesnave

Very honest of you to post this! :A

My stuff was never in the loft, but it was inside a very secure and totally mouse-proof oak cupboard in the garage for about six months. Had it been in the loft, I'd have used those huge plastic boxes one sees outside ironmongers shops. We stick all our Christmas decorations in those - ten of them!

However, I think I've been very lucky with something I stored in the loft, just in a cardboard box, without any special protection. That's a set of ancient books I've kept as an investment. Apparently, they are getting very rare as books, because people (Americans, I'm told) cut the plates and maps out of them to frame. The last price I had was around 1990, when they were valued at £800, so perhaps I ought to get an update on that.

Meanwhile, they have come out of the loft and are sitting here in my office, which is warm, dry and definitely a mouse free zone!

JonnyBravo

Same here lir. Sorry dopester. Yep mice can get virtually anywhere.
Tiny holes no problem, barely 0.5cm across. Up sheer walls. Up wall cavitities etc.
If there is food they will move in. Get those traps down and exterminate the vermin. My parents quite often had them when we were younger. Took years to block all access and to learn what to box etc.

Incidentally, I wouldn't trust plastic containers either. Metal only is my bet. They are persistent and will spend a few days gnawing to get at a food source.

lostinrates

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Same here lir. Sorry dopester. Yep mice can get virtually anywhere.
Tiny holes no problem, barely 0.5cm across. Up sheer walls. Up wall cavitities etc.
If there is food they will move in. Get those traps down and exterminate the vermin. My parents quite often had them when we were younger. Took years to block all access and to learn what to box etc.

Incidentally, I wouldn't trust plastic containers either. Metal only is my bet. They are persistent and will spend a few days gnawing to get at a food source.

Rats, not mice, have eaten through a plastic rubbish bin at the barn this year, and the rubber lid of a metal bin.

Cats keep us pretty mice free now, and would have a good go at the rats if the barn were closer. I think I need a terrier.

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