Mice thread

[John Delacour]

At 8:04 pm +0200 22/8/06, Ric Brekne wrote:

>Hi StŽphane
>Since these mice seem so intelligent... you could perhaps negotiate 
>an agreement with them ???

Mice are indeed very intelligent and methodical and the results of 
their games are quite amusing if you can bear the expense.  If you 
leave a tin open containing two or three different types of thing, 
say screws and buttons and nuts, they will sort them and store each 
in a different place.  Your part in the game is to find the new 
places before the urine has rusted the whole lot.

A good way to double an apprentice's learning speed in fitting new 
tapes to upright hammers is to leave the hammers out over night.  In 
the morning the apprentice will have to fit another set.  All the 
tapes will be nipped off close to the butt.

I must say I wish I'd known about the lavender many years ago since I 
will not kill any creature, but mice can be very expensive when there 
are no humans to scare them away.

JD