Hmm food for thought. The rats here tend to be out the back where the river is. They hide pretty well, I can only remember seeing one on two instances.
So far I haven't heard it since trimming the tree last week so I'm guessing it was coming in for the nights. Either that or it's going to be unpleasant when I go up and check the traps. I nearly had a heart attack this morning when I went into the garden shed... something moved and it looked like a BIG rat. When it fled I noticed it was actually a small abyssinian cat from across the road. It's a lovely thing but very skittish. Pity he didn't take a rat home. Cheers, Dave On Apr 24, 2014, at 9:35 pm, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting. I pruned trees some time ago to keep the rats out but to no > avail. Then one evening I saw one running along the overhead telephone wire > like a tightrope walker. Amazing that they can keep their balance. I just > chuck a couple of opened packets of Rattex in the ceiling when I hear a rat. > > Alan C > > -----Original Message----- From: David Mann > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 7:47 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: OT: Almost only counts ... > > On Apr 24, 2014, at 3:41 pm, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've spent the last couple of days making sure I've got backups of >> EVERYTHING and that I've made a list of all the product keys & activation >> codes for the programs I use. I was planning to tackle the job on Thursday. > > Good luck :) > > I just had to rebuild a machine from backups this week. My home Linux server > had a memory module go bad and it crapped all over the filesystem to the > extent it was completely unrecoverable. Fsck found so many problems it had > to expand /lost+found several times, and at the end I was left with a big > pile of filesystem spaghetti, eg /etc became a symlink to some random file in > /lib. > > I realised there was technically no need for hardware anymore so I set up > another Virtualbox instance on my laptop, installed Debian and restored what > I could from my very limited backups. If I'd had a full backup it would have > been a lot quicker but it's probably for the best as I'm on a newer OS > version. > > Today I had the pleasure of running DBAN on it and will take it to be > recycled at some stage. I was sure to return my good DIMM to the old scanner > machine :) > > Later on I have the pleasure of crawling around the roof removing all of the > network cables as I'll no longer have a need for them once I move a phone > socket, which I'll do at the same time. I hope the rat in the ceiling has > either left or been tempted by the traps! (Last weekends job was to trim the > lemon tree so the bastards can't get up there anymore.) > > Cheers, > Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
