Originally Posted by fidobsa

I tried to get mousetraps in ours when I discovered mice in the house. They did not have traps but they did have things like tea bags filled with "poison" and mouse glue which is supposed to catch them when spread on a piece of thin board or whatever. I didn't try the glue as it seems cruel but I did put down the sachets of blue stuff which the mice seem to enjoy with no ill effect!

Originally Posted by Rural Hungary

Knowing your sense of humour, I thought you were going to say you had ate them all! Hope the test results went went.

Originally Posted by digger47

5 and 20 Blackbirds Baked in a Pie but the feathers get stuck, it always tickles my Humour digger47.5

Originally Posted by Rural Hungary

Bad day to mention blackbirds.... been up half the night feeding two little nestling that the cat brought in. Lost one and think I will lose the other before the day is out.

Don't go choking on those feathers, your supposed to be looking after yourself!

Originally Posted by digger47

There is no Mice in my place they have long gone, I am so low on cash no food for "Me" never mind the Mice digger47.5

Originally Posted by fidobsa

I know the feeling! What little money I have is supposed to last me until 2027 when I (hopefully) get my UK state pension but the funds are being depleted fast at the moment, just on the basics of house renovation. The new bath is to replace one with more rust than enamel and the new kitchen is because the house didn't come with one!

Originally Posted by Englishmum

If you live in a village, isn't there a farm nearby where you can buy milk?

I currently live in Switzerland, in a village at Lake Zug. I've just had a cup of tea and used up the last of the milk. In a few minutes I will go over to the farm behind our apartment and buy some milk; there is an refridgerated automat. I take my own 1 litre milk bottles (purchased from a department store kitchen dept in Zug) and put in CHF 1.20 coins for each litre. The milk is unpasteurised and from the farm's dairy cows. They have a little portakabin where they sell items as the barn is currently being upgraded.

I can also buy fresh eggs from their own uncaged hens and apples and pressed apple juice from their orchard and in season they also sell cherries and vegetables. They also sell home made jam, lackerli (gingerbread squares) and local honey and cheese. There is a freezer containing local sausages, burger patties and ice-cream. There isn't a cashier (the farmer's wife is too busy doing other things - it is a nice young couple running the farm and they are only in their early thirties) and there is just an honesty box where you record what you've purchased and leave the money to be collected later by the farmer.

There are farms all over Switzerland selling produce in this way and I've seen honesty boxes at roadside stands in English country villages and farms where they sell local produce, also in France and Germany. Don't they do this in Hungary?

Originally Posted by wolfi

This is getting rather OT, but still: