I knew today was going too well (what with the absence of a hangover etc) ...
... looked inside the lower half of the airing cupboard for the first time for a while (the top half gets used daily) and assumed the usual "groping around with torch and banging head" position to get at the Central Heating timer thingy (perhaps Mr Builder could explain why his pals always put them in such daft places?).
Anyway - found piles of nicely shredded insulation and bubble wrap - some little blighter has been making himself at home over the last few weeks.
Trip needed now to B&Q for a couple of traps - reluctant to use rodenticide because this is all upstairs and don't want the little bugger crawling off somewhere inaccessible to die.
I suppose I should count myself lucky that the mice that come into No 30 are bought in by Perry and are mostly dead... How did you manage to be hangover free after yesterday's beer fest....?!
you can get rodentcide that nails their kidneys, dave, forces them out to go and look for water and then they keel over outside - anyway mice don't smell (though you can get maggots and bottles).....it's rats that stink. Any decent local country supply shop should have the necessary execution - ours comes in sachets.