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Merlin's_Beard

KajiKita said:

There are a LOT of people waiting for this stone to pass ….. ! 😂

With bated breath....!

I'm glad you've both got someone who can explain why the decisions being made are being made, and why that might be the best way forward for him.

KajiKita

Suffolk_lass said:

KajiKita said:

There are a LOT of people waiting for this stone to pass ….. ! 😂

Yes, each time one of us goes to the loo I think of you both and we get more water out and drink some (we keep a litre of cold filtered water in the fridge!). Well done on recognising the stress your DH was feeling and making that intervention. 

We have similar here with Mr SL's eye - 3rd surgery since original detached retina yesterday - 4th is Monday fortnight, but the eye clinic at the County Town have been wonderful, once there (the doctor's receptionist qualities of the triage nurse were not helpful but she meant well)

I’m glad Mr KK’s misery is serving some useful purpose 😉

4 eye surgeries?! Wowsers …. Poor Mr SL - sending him huge sympathies. Hoping the 4th one is the final one and fully effective. 

KK

redofromstart

Oh I had a little squeal just reading about your mice. I think I would have to move out to be honest.  We get them in the wall between the stone and the dry lining every winter and that's bad enough.  

More anxious about the mice than the stone, I hope it warms up and they move out soon.

ours like running in circles round cats laughing, and chocolate.  

KajiKita

redofromstart said:

Oh I had a little squeal just reading about your mice. I think I would have to move out to be honest.  We get them in the wall between the stone and the dry lining every winter and that's bad enough.  

More anxious about the mice than the stone, I hope it warms up and they move out soon.

ours like running in circles round cats laughing, and chocolate.  

I thought ours were feisty (one kept right past me in a narrow gap between the wall and the bed as I was kneeling on the floor!) but yours sound like prima donnas! 😂

KK

Suffolk_lass

We get mice in the roof of the kitchen, and have had attempts by rats to get in to the same space. Interestingly the little blocks that are in the roof void (along with traps) are apparently chocolate flavoured

Merlin's_Beard

Mice definitely go mad for chocolate, they're too fancy for cheese these days!

SandyShores

We lived in a really old house in the middle of nowhere a few years ago and there was always scrabbling in the loft.  When we moved to our last house and adopted the cat, he decided he was going to bring a few inside for us regularly - alive.  I'm fairly adept at running round with a plastic box, but when one got under the kitchen units there was no option but for a trap - peanut butter seemed to do the trick.  Mouse was released into the field but I don't think he was very happy being in the plastic box until I woke up.   If I woke up to one on my head there would be a lot of screaming though.   The cat showed a bit of interest under the kitchen units in our new house yesterday and today - so I'm wondering if he's managed to bring one in and lose it.  There's a large grille under the built in fridge-freezer that needs modifying so that a mice can't get through it, there are also small gaps under the washer and the dishwasher between the legs - I'm scratching my head about something to block those gaps up as well.

redofromstart

My cats get very cross that they can hear them behind the plaster but not actually get to them where the stone walks are dry lined. We can't access the loft for one end of the house so it's hard to do anything about it, and lime based stone makes for easy access and egress.

KajiKita

@SandyShores re the gaps under the washer, between the feet, would the kind of edging you sometimes get between a bath and a wall work?

KK

redofromstart

@SandyShores some kind of expanding foam maybe? We have used it successfully in gaps around doors and windows.