What have you been doing today?

[freddiemercurystwin]

Yes, well known it's the worse thing you can do for a trapped mouse to release it elsewhere, either kill it yourself, use poison or an instant kill trap, any pest controller will tell you the same.

 

[Brigadier]

Killing with kindness.

 

[Trazor]

Why? Not as certain a death as a snap trap. Will it find no food or water and more chance of becoming prey a mile away from my house?

They survive in groups, it will be alone with no shelter unless it is very lucky.
Food in a foreign land will be hard to find, as perhaps will water.
It will be easy prey for local hunters, especially cats.

A house mouse will almost certainly die, a field or wood mouse will have a better chance.

 

[Mottie]

Yes, well known it's the worse thing you can do for a trapped mouse to release it elsewhere, either kill it yourself, use poison or an instant kill trap, any pest controller will tell you the same.

Apparently they won’t. Two schools of thought out there, I suppose you can pick which one you want to believe. As it happens, I let it go in the other side of my garden. It wasn’t in any of the traps this morning.

 

[fillyboy]

Catch it humanely, take it outside and throw it under the wheels of a passing police car.

 

[Mottie]

First thing this morning I knocked up some filler and did a bit of filling on the skirting boards in the kitchen. Walked the dog back round to the Indian restaurant where I left my car last night after probably drinking too much with my meal to drive home. Had a tidy up because my son, his wife and our two grandchildren came round. Our daughter is in Greece and Mrs Mottie is in Spain so it was good to see some family on Father’s Day! Popped over the allotment to do yet more weeding. Had my tea and then did a bit of rubbing down and painting of the woodwork. Finished just after 10.30. Had enough. Shower then bed.

 

[securespark]

I've been doing filling too. Kept putting it off so last night Mrs S said I had to get my nose to the hole-filling grindstone or else!

Filled some holes where old sockets and switches used to be.

 

[Mottie]

Mrs Mottie is back later today so the great tidy-up will be taking place so that it will look less of a building site and more of a habitable dwelling!

 

[Brigadier]

Waiting on a spark, who is supposed to be installing an EV charge point at my gaff.

 

[Mottie]

As it happens, I let it go in the other side of my garden. It wasn’t in any of the traps this morning.

But it was again this morning! Well, I assume it was the same one. This time I released it over the back fence into the access track that runs along the back of our houses. I’ve bought a plastic container to keep my bird seed in now so hopefully there won't be anything for them to get at which might stop them coming in.

 

[Trazor]

Sleep tight Mottie.....

 

[Mottie]

Painted my kitchen door frame and skirting boards. Went terribly wrong. On previously painted interior woodwork I normally give it a coat of white emulsion and then a coat of white satinwood. For some reason the satinwood behaved like paint stripper so I wiped it off quickly with a damp cloth. I think it might have reacted with the speshul long lasting tough kitchen paint I used on the walls. Will do it again another day when I paint the kitchen in its final colour.

Got round to fitting the cabinet lights. Warm white under instruction from Mrs Mottie. If I had my way they would have been brighter.

Went over the allotment and upended a couple of containers with my new potatoes (jazzy) in. Got loads.

Dropped a bag off with some mint to my sister and another to my mother. Still got loads left plus about the same again in an old bathtub.

Boil them up, chop some mint, add some butter, cracked black pepper and sea salt and they are a meal on their own. Absolutely delicious.

 

[securespark]

More filling and sanding.

Used one coat for the undercoat then put B & Q coving adhesive/ filler on top. Lots of people telling me it's rubbish, but I find it really good. Easy to layer, quick to dry and a piece of p.... to sand down.

There was a whacking great hole to the left of the light switch. There's a couple of small indentations left that need filling, but it looks good.

The filler:

 

[fillyboy]

On previously painted interior woodwork I normally give it a coat of white emulsion and then a coat of white satinwood.

Oh dear.

Notwithstanding that, kitchen looks good, well done.

 

[Mottie]

Oh dear.

I know, I know but I’ve always done that for interior stuff. For a temporary coat of paint I bought this special kitchen paint - 'washable and ten times tougher' than ordinary paint. It’s ’orrible - marks so easy. Anyway, I may have used that on the door frame. That’s what blistered when I went over it with satinwood. Wiped it all off quickly. Going to leave it for now and might splash out on some proper undercoat when the kitchen gets its final coloured coat of paint.