Surprisingly ,through
our the whole of this long hard winter not a single rat has been seen
in the gardens or the garth,until this week.
I am not sure what the
attraction is,it cannot be the bird food we put pout daily or they
would certainly visit us in the winter when food is scarce , so why
come now?
We are still waiting
for the work on the out buildings to be completed so there is nothing
in the sheds to attract them,it,s a mystery. Pa thinks that it may be
because our two cats are staying indoors at the moment. I think that
perhaps it is due to the fact that the Tom cats chorus has been much
less in evidence of late,whatever the reason they are back!
On Tuesday evening I
got a shot off at a big male rat,I am a good shot,the rat did not
suffer,it's a job I hate but having been brought up on a farm I know
the importance of keeping rat numbers down, not only for the damage
they do but for the disease with they carry,even so I have found
myself unable to shoot the baby rats that congregate around the bird
bath to drink,they are just too damned cute!
I dislike the idea of
using poison as I fear the accumulative effect it can have upon
foxes, cats and other creatures who kill them for food, over all I
think a clean quick shot is best .If a fox, a crow or any carrion
eater finds and eats one it will not harm their young or themselves.
Moth continues to
recover from her operation and has now completed her course of
antibiotic,Twiggy,in a towering rage and has spent all day sulking in
my room. Aggression between them is oddly spasmodic so a cause is
difficult to trace. We shall have to persevere with these two
stubborn females I can see. Hormones can be the very devil.
My son is tonight
attending a meeting to discuss further work to be done on the River
Crane,this river was deliberately flooded with effluent two years ago
when problems developed with the drains at Heathrow Airport. It seems
that the fine for polluting ,not only the River Crane but the Duke of
Northumberland's River at Silverhall, and The River Thames at
Isleworth, (an area only just beginning to recover from a similar
event some years before) was much much less than those which Thames
Water would have faced had they chosen not to pollute the river
This discrepancy in the
amount of the fine for such behaviour is at the root cause of many of
out problems with river and land pollution, and it is well past the
time when the seriousness of such irresponsible decisions was
acknowledged by a greater equality in the punishment.
Finally I feel that I
must mention the passing of Margaret Thatcher, but since it is not
done to speak ill of the dead I shall refrain from doing so here.
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