Cheery's country living adventure

South_coast

*mwahahahaha*

themadvix

No, surely it’s more glam than that - more like the Ritz?! I’m picturing mice at tiny tea tables supping from fine bone china! 🤣

greenbee

themadvix said:

No, surely it’s more glam than that - more like the Ritz?! I’m picturing mice at tiny tea tables supping from fine bone china! 🤣

I’ve told my mice. They’ve packed their suitcases and are on their way over...

the_cross_rabbit

Our rat likes the sound of that too so he’s on his way cheery as it’s not too far( think we live in the same county). 

CRx

Cheery_Daff

Oh good grief, don't be all sending your rodent pals over here!! We have quite enough already thank you!!  

I confess we've been trying to think a good name for the mouse hotels (we have two) - not got any further than The Ritz (Cracker) and Mousetropolis just yet In reality they're more like a one room sparsely furnished bedsit, but still  

No mice last night anyway... fingers crossed... If we have another night free of them I might stick the hotels in the chicken run, try and get rid of the two danger mice that come out before the chickens have gone to bed - living life on the edge... 

Anyway, nice trip to the cafe this morning, and also got round to posting my parcel, so that's good. Raining now, and we're planning a cosy and restful day inside - no 'should do' anything, just light pottering, or sitting and reading all afternoon if that's what we feel like. 

We've had our second lot of vouchers for the covid study though so I AM going to download those because then I can add another £40 to the mortgage spreadsheet!


 

Karmacat

Fascinating to read the lecturing issues from the other side, so to speak.  Really enlightening.

Have a lovely pottering day, Cheery.

Cheery_Daff

Thanks KC. Glad it's interesting and not just waffling We're all doing SO much thinking and experimenting with how to get an engaging and lively learning experience for the students, while recognising that a lot of them are still young and away from home for the first time, without ideal tech/private space etc, and balancing our own needs (I officially get about 2 hours to prepare a one hour lecture, and even with that allocation I'm officially at 105% capacity this year - and of course while there are some  that can be quickly prepared (or reused from last year), plenty need an overhaul or updating or writing from scratch, and take much longer. 

Anyway, BLAH. All this work talk on the weekend is no good! 

Let's get back to MSE stuff I've cashed in our latest vouchers, and sent £50 to the mortgage Not reduced our end date (which at current rates is May 2035) but has knocked £19 off our total interest so I suppose that's something! Need to overpay another £260 to drop another month off the end date, which isn't going to happen all in one go for a while. 

Checked Prolific and YouGov, nothing happening. 

Not done MB today - made a grand total of -£1 the other night. Yippee.  

Mr Cheery is making a tasty soup for lunch though which I'm looking forward to - very much feels like a soup kind of a day. And then I might do something that always feels like a guilty treat - a daytime bath!

Pyxis

So glad you used the humane traps, Cheery. 😇

I had some mice in the recent past, and used the traps to catch them and take them to a suitable spot elsewhere. They were wood mice, so not as ghastly as house mice, and never got onto worktops.

In the end, I decided that the problem might have been the piles of rockery stone I had stored against the side wall of the house, providing a useful hide area for them, so I moved them to the garden and touch wood, haven't had a problem since.

There's a largish woodpile in the garden, which I keep for any wildlife who like the look of it, so they're welcome to live there if they want to. Not seen any, though.

themadvix

Cheery, I have the feeling you might be doing the marathon today - if so, good luck and I hope you don’t get too wet!

fannyadams

Actual pic of 'specialist mechanic' looking at your car.
"Nah. Dere's Nuffink Wrong wiv it"