Island Life: A Rat At My Table
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Jonty: The interesting thing though is that the Right's wedge doesn't seem to be working in this case.
Sure they've managed to mobilise their usual fellow-travellers, and maybe I don't know enough socially conservative Labour-voters, but I don't think that this will be a long-term problem for Labour vis-a-vis its constituency, and it will certainly not be one for the Greens.
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like Oscar Wilde
that sounds more like Quentin Crisp
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merc,
Damn you Master Riddley (you are correct), you will not be taken up with the precious few...
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i can promise to be thick if it helps my chances of salvation. i've seen clues that it might
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merc,
It takes a special kind of person to believe that your true salvation lies with a ghost, a bearded man and a young fella who died to save you because you are all born in sin, but more especially, The Ghost, who is mysterious and cannot be questioned, ever, mmmkay?
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"Our friends' cat solved this problem by simply ripping the cat door off"
Heh, our dog ate the cat door. Luckily she grew out of that behaviour (or possibly it was not to her taste) because subsequent cat doors have survived.
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a ghost, a bearded man and a young fella who died
come on, i just saw that on Shortland St
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The HoS headhunted about a third of their staff from fairfax, they obviously didn't get the right third.
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Ah, no... the headhunter misunderstood the directions from Ireland. "Get a t'urd from Farefucks," were the orders, obeyed to a fault.
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hehehe... nice one.
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Moz,
Maybe if the Labour party actually had a legislative agenda people wouldn't be spending so much time on a private members bill. But as things stand this is a most excellent diversion from the complete lack of anything to do in parliament. {looks nonchalant and whistles}
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I, once, confronted a rat in my kitchen. Paralysed with fear I rang for my BIL to get his butt round here now, unfortunately he was not home so my sister came instead. She found me on the table, cowering, then announced that she didn't know what to do. In desperation she throw a cardboard box over it, said she would get my BIL to come round to deal with it when he got home, and left saying she couldn't deal with rats. Thanks sis! I was alright about the rat until it began dragging the box about the kitchen floor as it scurried round. BIL came round hours later, I had spent those 4 hours locked in the toilet in mortal fear.
To this day I am not sure why I thought the toilet was the best place to take refuge.
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You would have loved my house a year ago, Muriel. We were under siege from bush rats that decided our garden was a great place to build a nest (well, okay, the garden is less of a garden and more of a jungle, but still, they only came because the bastard developers across the road cut down all the bush where their little homes were.......). Not only did they do that, but they thought that coming inside would suit them too. So, the fact that we have an excellent ratting dog notwithstanding, they got in to the walls. They were coming from under the house, and consequently chewing holes in the laundry and the bathroom.It was a bit like the invasion of the body snatchers! Why I didn't use rat poison at that point, I have no idea. I think the logic at the time was that if they curled up and died inside, the smell would be overpowering. It wasn't until my dog broke her back (unrelated to the rats), and they had tried to chew the crap out of our laundry door, that I finally had had enough, and rat poison it was. I put out some lovely lunch plates of grainy poisoned goodness, and several nights of empty plates later, they were gone. ..
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shudder
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Kiore kia ora!
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That's nuthin I tell ya!
I found a pig on the property this weekend! A PIG!
Not to mention I found, for the first time ever, rabbit holes.
And pukekoes.
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That's a very lively lifestyle property you've got, llew. I like it.
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I must admit, having counted the livestock & found them all present, it was a bit disconcerting when some other large animal that shouldn't be there suddenly reared its head...
Those pigs are pretty stubborn beasts to push back through a fence though.
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I'd pay money to see you do that, as long as it's for real and you won't ham it.
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So no hunting knives or eager pig dogs then?
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merc,
This threads not going to go all Lord of the Flies now is it?
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Depends... are we talking about Huns using Englischer pig-dogs or the local variety?
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merc,
If you've ever been blooded, and half part Hun and have Geman short haired pointers as family pets and hunting dogs, and only hunt pigs with a knife because, hell, that's a waste of a bullet, you'll understand.
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hunting Lords and flies with bullets is totally a waste.
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