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Well, the mice have come to visit again, every year they come to stay in the
attic, every year I kill them. I still cannot figure out how they are
getting up there. I was in Asda today and saw a Digital Pest Repellent from
JML

Here is the link, you'll have to figure out yourself how to piece it all
together or use Google.

http://www.jmldirect.com/product.asp...gecurrency=GBP

Are they any good or are they on a par with a magnetic water softener?

Janice

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"Janice" wrote in message
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Well, the mice have come to visit again, every year they come to stay in
the attic, every year I kill them. I still cannot figure out how they are
getting up there.

Mine used to come in up the cavity wall gap, though a hole left in the wall
by a poorly fitted waste water pipe for a washing machine.

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In message , Matt A
writes
"Janice" wrote in message
...
Well, the mice have come to visit again, every year they come to stay in
the attic, every year I kill them. I still cannot figure out how they are
getting up there.

Mine used to come in up the cavity wall gap, though a hole left in the wall
by a poorly fitted waste water pipe for a washing machine.

ISTR telling this tale before but... a new audience is always
tempting:-)

We had the builders *make over* a Victorian farmhouse (pair of gravel
cottages) which included reconstructing an existing barn linking the
house to a timber, two storey barn.

On the architects strict instructions that no weight was to be imposed
on the barn foundations, the builders simply stopped the cavity walls
where they touched the barn. The last section was used as a garage so
thermal considerations were not an issue, nevertheless, the cavity was
filled with rockwool.

Now it so happens that we have a productive Walnut growing in the
garden. One day I opened the cardboard box stored in the garage
expecting to find it half full of nuts. Apart from a small hole near the
bottom there were no nuts and no evidence where they had gone.

Traps were set and numerous Wood mice despatched (sandy chaps with white
chests). One day I opened the soffit to install a cable and got showered
in Walnuts.

During some further building work, the mystery was solved. The column
supporting the up and over garage door was open down to the ground. Mice
had tunnelled through the insulation and carried the nuts 20m along the
soffit to reach the main house. Not content they continued a further 10m
to reach the point of maximum annoyance: directly above our bed!

The noise created by a well fed Wood mouse opening a Walnut at 12pm is
indescribable.

regards

--
Tim Lamb

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On 24 Nov, 10:46, Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , Matt A
writes

"Janice" wrote in message
...
Well, the mice have come to visit again, every year they come to stay in
the attic, every year I kill them. I still cannot figure out how they are
getting up there.

Mine used to come in up the cavity wall gap, though a hole left in the wall
by a poorly fitted waste water pipe for a washing machine.

ISTR telling this tale before but... a new audience is always
tempting:-)

We had the builders *make over* a Victorian farmhouse (pair of gravel
cottages) which included reconstructing an existing barn linking the
house to a timber, two storey barn.

On the architects strict instructions that no weight was to be imposed
on the barn foundations, the builders simply stopped the cavity walls
where they touched the barn. The last section was used as a garage so
thermal considerations were not an issue, nevertheless, the cavity was
filled with rockwool.

Now it so happens that we have a productive Walnut growing in the
garden. One day I opened the cardboard box stored in the garage
expecting to find it half full of nuts. Apart from a small hole near the
bottom there were no nuts and no evidence where they had gone.

Traps were set and numerous Wood mice despatched (sandy chaps with white
chests). One day I opened the soffit to install a cable and got showered
in Walnuts.

During some further building work, the mystery was solved. The column
supporting the up and over garage door was open down to the ground. Mice
had tunnelled through the insulation and carried the nuts 20m along the
soffit to reach the main house. Not content they continued a further 10m
to reach the point of maximum annoyance: directly above our bed!

The noise created by a well fed Wood mouse opening a Walnut at 12pm is
indescribable.

regards

--
Tim Lamb



Great story Tim - but the pedants are at play too; surely 12pm is 12
midday - post meridiem = "after mid day", Now I don't want to
question your bedtime activities during the day, but I do suspect you
really wanted to say 12 am - "ante meridiem" = before midday.

Rob

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robgraham writes



Great story Tim - but the pedants are at play too; surely 12pm is 12
midday - post meridiem = "after mid day", Now I don't want to
question your bedtime activities during the day, but I do suspect you
really wanted to say 12 am - "ante meridiem" = before midday.

Quite right.

I paused as I typed it but a.m. was progressing and I had work to do.

The thing I didn't mention was that when my wife banged her slipper on
the ceiling, there was only a momentary pause in the noise. After
further banging it shifted to the other side of the room.

regards

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Tim Lamb

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robgraham writes
During some further building work, the mystery was solved. The column
supporting the up and over garage door was open down to the ground. Mice
had tunnelled through the insulation and carried the nuts 20m along the
soffit to reach the main house. Not content they continued a further 10m
to reach the point of maximum annoyance: directly above our bed!

The noise created by a well fed Wood mouse opening a Walnut at 12pm is
indescribable.

regards

--
Tim Lamb



Great story Tim - but the pedants are at play too; surely 12pm is 12
midday - post meridiem = "after mid day", Now I don't want to
question your bedtime activities during the day, but I do suspect you
really wanted to say 12 am - "ante meridiem" = before midday.

Err no

!2 o'clock is either noon or midnight

ante meridian means before 12, post meridian means after.


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geoff

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In message , geoff
writes


Great story Tim - but the pedants are at play too; surely 12pm is 12
midday - post meridiem = "after mid day", Now I don't want to
question your bedtime activities during the day, but I do suspect you
really wanted to say 12 am - "ante meridiem" = before midday.

Err no

!2 o'clock is either noon or midnight

ante meridian means before 12, post meridian means after.

It was actually somewhere between 11.55pm and 12.05am :-)

regards



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Tim Lamb

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On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:12:47 +0000, geoff wrote:

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robgraham writes
During some further building work, the mystery was solved. The column
supporting the up and over garage door was open down to the ground. Mice
had tunnelled through the insulation and carried the nuts 20m along the
soffit to reach the main house. Not content they continued a further 10m
to reach the point of maximum annoyance: directly above our bed!

The noise created by a well fed Wood mouse opening a Walnut at 12pm is
indescribable.

regards

--
Tim Lamb



Great story Tim - but the pedants are at play too; surely 12pm is 12
midday - post meridiem = "after mid day", Now I don't want to
question your bedtime activities during the day, but I do suspect you
really wanted to say 12 am - "ante meridiem" = before midday.

Err no

!2 o'clock is either noon or midnight

ante meridian means before 12, post meridian means after.

Absolutely. A little aside, which is probably of no interest to many,
in the services where the 24hr clock is always used (the most sensible
solution anyway) there is no such animal as 12 midnight, there is 2359
then 0001, to avoid any other confusion.

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In message , Tim Lamb
writes
In message , geoff
writes


Great story Tim - but the pedants are at play too; surely 12pm is 12
midday - post meridiem = "after mid day", Now I don't want to
question your bedtime activities during the day, but I do suspect you
really wanted to say 12 am - "ante meridiem" = before midday.

Err no

!2 o'clock is either noon or midnight

ante meridian means before 12, post meridian means after.

It was actually somewhere between 11.55pm and 12.05am :-)

regards

NO getting away from it - that is midnight +/- 5 mins ...

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geoff

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On 24 Nov, 21:12, geoff wrote:
In message
,
robgraham writes

During some further building work, the mystery was solved. The column
supporting the up and over garage door was open down to the ground. Mice
had tunnelled through the insulation and carried the nuts 20m along the
soffit to reach the main house. Not content they continued a further 10m
to reach the point of maximum annoyance: directly above our bed!

The noise created by a well fed Wood mouse opening a Walnut at 12pm is
indescribable.

regards

--
Tim Lamb

Great story Tim - but the pedants are at play too; surely 12pm is 12
midday - post meridiem = "after mid day", *Now I don't want to
question your bedtime activities during the day, but I do suspect you
really wanted to say 12 am - "ante meridiem" = before midday.

Err no

!2 o'clock is either noon or midnight

ante meridian means before 12, post meridian means after.

--
geoff

Wrong Geoff - and back to pedanticism; it's 'meridiem' which means
'midday'. So it's 'before midday' and 'after midday'.

Meridian is the great circle of the Earth.

Rob

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In message
,
robgraham writes
On 24 Nov, 21:12, geoff wrote:
In message
,
robgraham writes

During some further building work, the mystery was solved. The column
supporting the up and over garage door was open down to the ground. Mice
had tunnelled through the insulation and carried the nuts 20m along the
soffit to reach the main house. Not content they continued a further 10m
to reach the point of maximum annoyance: directly above our bed!

The noise created by a well fed Wood mouse opening a Walnut at 12pm is
indescribable.

regards

--
Tim Lamb

Great story Tim - but the pedants are at play too; surely 12pm is 12
midday - post meridiem = "after mid day", *Now I don't want to
question your bedtime activities during the day, but I do suspect you
really wanted to say 12 am - "ante meridiem" = before midday.

Err no

!2 o'clock is either noon or midnight

ante meridian means before 12, post meridian means after.

--
geoff

Wrong Geoff - and back to pedanticism; it's 'meridiem' which means
'midday'. So it's 'before midday' and 'after midday'.

ITYYF that either is acceptable

looking in my shorter oxford dictionary, which, AFAIAC is as definitive
as I need to get ...

the first definition (in a whole 1/2 page column)

"midday, noon

another definition

"of or pertaining to midday or noon"

so - if you want top be a pedant, go and learn the 'kin language



Meridian is the great circle of the Earth.

That is the 4th definition - way down the list


Rob

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geoff