Monday was a nice spring day again so I spent some time in the garden. Planted some daffodils in flowerpots, put up the laundry airer, that kind of thing. When I was throwing out some of last autumn’s dead plants, I discovered a large tunnel in the corner of our compost hole: the opening was as large as both my hands together, and it went all the way to the bottom, so maybe a metre or so.

I am not even sure if I want to find out what is at the bottom. A huge rats’ nest, probably. I wish I could pour some poison in it but rat poison is no longer sold to consumers so that’s not happening, then.

My the next step was to unlock and crawl into the crawlspace underneath the house and inspect the mousetrap I put there last autumn. It didn’t catch anything then, so I had completely forgotten about it. It had caught a mouse during winter, so I rearmed and re-baited it. Hopefully it will also catch the inhabitants of that tunnel. If not, I think it will soon be time to call in professionals.