Hello Dhaarlings...
Several months ago just northwest of "The Palais"
The local Farming Folk suffered from a nasty plague of mice that managed to munch their way through the crops of grain right on harvest time
Mice plagues are not a new phenomena to the region...
It is just that with years of drought and sustained heat and lack of water and poor crop production and even crop failure...
We have not had one this big for many years...
Several months ago just northwest of "The Palais"
The local Farming Folk suffered from a nasty plague of mice that managed to munch their way through the crops of grain right on harvest time
Mice plagues are not a new phenomena to the region...
It is just that with years of drought and sustained heat and lack of water and poor crop production and even crop failure...
We have not had one this big for many years...
They happen when the conditions are right...
This year... the conditions were right...
And the buggers are making up for lost time...
Unfortunately...
It all gets a bit tiresome...
one of my worse nightmares, sugar! ewwwwwwwwww!!!
ReplyDeletexoxoxoxo
These mice are nice. Of course they must be fought to death. We simply can not allow nice mice to mange away our food!
ReplyDeleteBut thank God it's not the Bradford Rats!
When I was a kid, we used to go out to grandpa's barn and flip over hay bales to watch the mice and rats scatter.
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ReplyDeleteThe Empress has never been keen on them either. XXX
Dear, Mago,
That link to the Bradford rats is scarey.. I guess England is well experienced the disease carrying potential of the beasts... and checking for fleas...
Dear Xl,
That was always a great bit of holiday fun for us too when visiting rellys.
However imagine going to do that and finding you cant lift it cos it's chocked full o mice..
Whole stocks of hay have been devistated on some farms and the only option is to set fire to the stacks in the hope of irradicating the remainder o the vermin. Baits etc are either non impacting or too expensive for most farms to afford...
"I hate those meeces to pieces!"
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Ah, so that's where my latest batch of ingredients has got to.
ReplyDeleteQuick! Round them up before they get away!