Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Category: Mice

Given that I'm at the foot hills of the Grampians we have a minor problem with vermin. I bought some of these, they are an absolute cracker -- caught two mice in two nights -- none of that bother too with the disposal of said rodent -- like a large clothes peg actually.
Now, interestingly, the manufacturer suggested using peanut butter as the bait so I laid out two traps, one with peanut butter and one with Pecks Paste and the mice preffered the Pecks Paste every time. Go figure -- I'm gonna write to the Pecks group of companies about this!

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Category: Train Town

During my current sojourn (long story) I've assisted in the setup of an Adelaide/Melbourne train line motion sensitive webcam -- it's been a bit of fun (birds and trees aside)