Noelene, during one of those mice plagues, we stayed in a motel in Bathurst (for the non- Australians, Bathurst is a quite large city a couple of hours drive west of Sydney). All evening our eldest son, then aged about 15, kept driving us mad by saying "there's a mouse.....there's a mouse". I put it down to his trying to scare his younger siblings. However, after we put them to bed in the other room, we settled down with a quiet cuppa - and lo and behold, there *was* a mouse!
So this picture of righteous indignation, complete with *beautiful* English accent, marched down to the owner of the motel to complain. He provided me with a mouse-trap and cheese, which didn't really placate me....I was horrified to find a mouse in a top-class motel. I'll cut the long story short - suffice to say I didn't sleep at all during the night - we caught three mice, and heard many others scratching around inside the wall cavities in both our rooms, and I've absolutely refused to stay in that motel ever since! Needless to say, the manager blamed it all on the mouse plague, but our friends who live in Bathurst (and who live on a 5 acre block on the outskirts of town,) were adamant that *they* hadn't had trouble with mice coming in from the fields, so didn't understand why the motel in the centre of town should claim to do so!! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) W & N Lafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Chat about squirrels scambering about, and David's reference to grey Koalas (which are few and far between) brought to mind the grey mice plagues that infest our wheat growing areas in Australia some years. Makes me shudder to think of them. And the only grey things that invaded my garden (before I closed the enormous iron gate every night) were over a metre high grey kangaroos looking for something to eat - now we've finally had a bit of rain, they've gone bush again. Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
