The pitter patter of little feet....

I keep thinking I hear the screams of little ratties, bleeding to death in our roof.

This morning I was dozing and had a wee dream that a snarling rattie jumped through the bedroom window and landed on me, trying to bite me, and I couldn't cry out to get Adam to come and get the rat off. Eventually I was able to call him, and we held the spitting, writhing rat down until we could throw him out the window.

hehe.

Awesome eh.

I dreamt about a rat!

Exciting news!

I have some exciting news!

Adam and I have a new addition to the family.

Well, more than one addition.

And to our house, not our family.

We have rats.

Yes - rats!

How exciting!!

They are living in our roof, and have been for possibly quite some time. The Pest control man said that they have been having a ball with walnuts (from the neighbours tree that drops nuts into our yard), playing a sort of rat football with them up in our roof, and creating tracks around our ceiling space. He also said that they can jump up to 6 metres, so they have probably been getting in to our roof by climbing the shrubs in our garden, and jumping on to our gutter. This is exciting stuff. I kind of want to see them, but I'm not sure how safe (or easy) that would be - especially seeing as we're attempting to poison them. They might bite me to avenge their baby rat's deaths.
I've gotta admit. Even the thought of being bitten by a rat is kind of appealing. Adventurous and dangeresque...

But never mind, I wont try it. I'll leave the rats to die their noisy deaths.

Hello?

Somebody's phone is ringing. It has been ringing for four minutes. This time. At 10:30 it rang for three minutes, and at 10:21 it rang for 2 minutes. It has been ringing for similar lengths of time since about 10:00.

I would like to point out that if nobody is answering the phone after about 18 minutes, then they are not going to answer it, or are not home, and YOU SHOULD HANG UP.

At least the phone ringing is better than our (i'm guessing) student neighbours' bassy music that is occasionally played at high volume. Or better than mice scratching in your ceiling at 4.30am.

A phone ringing is not bad. Not bad at all.