Living on the land has its challenges and the first of those was a midnight visit of a rat! NO NO NO!
I frantically went in search for traps that Paul then laid out with tempting peanut butter. Rats apparently don't know what cheese is in this part of the world (neither do the Indonsians for that matter). And we've caught one already. THIS IS NOT FUNNY!
We've taken down our sails and removed all the soft furnishings from Calypso which are currently stored in a little room beside the house and I have visions (no, make that nightmares) of putting up the sails in nine months time to find them all chomped and shredded. Got to get more traps and pellets! Then there are the cockroaches, geckos (cute but messy) large iguanas, frogs and, I'm told, snakes. And I musn't forget the mosquitoes, ants and spiders.
Living on the land is not all its cracked up to be. My perfume of choice is Eau de mosquito spray, the air freshener is Essence of Doom, and the aroma of lavender Baygon mats burn gently beside our bed at night which is still not rocking me to sleep.
Living on the land is not all its cracked up to be. My perfume of choice is Eau de mosquito spray, the air freshener is Essence of Doom, and the aroma of lavender Baygon mats burn gently beside our bed at night which is still not rocking me to sleep.
The house is air conditioned and I don't mean the electrical AC variety. The entire back kitchen window is open, no glass, no shutters, no netting. This has the great feature of letting the air circulate but the not so great feature of allowing every creepy crawly in the neighbourhood to pay us a visit. However, even if this were closed up, where the walls meet the roof, there are huge gaps; the roofing just sits upon the walls. And then the walls themselves are made up of vertical slabs of old teak, charming in their own way but a bit like louvred doors; there are air gaps between them and the same goes for the floor. Heaven only knows what this will be like during the rainy season but I guess we'll find out soon enough. I'm not complaining as it certainly has its charm: it'll just take a bit of getting used to.
If we were going to be here permanently, I'd go out tomorrow and find a new litter of kittens and take the whole lot! In the meanwhile, there's a cute little black and white kitty who I'm encouraging to visit - perhaps rodent kebabs are right up his alley.
If we were going to be here permanently, I'd go out tomorrow and find a new litter of kittens and take the whole lot! In the meanwhile, there's a cute little black and white kitty who I'm encouraging to visit - perhaps rodent kebabs are right up his alley.
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