On 16/10/2012 13:02, Sue wrote:

"David Rance" wrote

The reason for doing this is to prevent mice getting at them. In this
house the mice will eat anything, whether edible or not. Last winter
they ate the numbers off my phone as well as the labels off pots of
jam, even the plastic bottle tops. In the past they gnawed their way
through a plastic bottle of linseed oil! Can you imagine the mess? In
spite of having our cats over here for a month in the summer, and they
caught up to five mice/voles per day, they don't seem to have made any
inroads into the population because they have had a lot of my grapes.
How do I know it was mice? Because I found their secret store of
grapes and grass seed behind one of my shutters. My wife says that
they were planning to make some sort of whisky!

Whiskers galore!

Wish I'd thought of that!

David

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David Rance writing from Le Mesnil Villement, Calvados, France
http://rance.org.uk