LDR chat thread VIII

That is just lovely!! I love hearing other couples' little "things"

Awww, that makes it even cuter!

I've just discovered that the ceilings in my house are either paper thin or my housemate talks very loud. My room is the front room downstairs and whoever has the room above mine, I can hear pretty much every word they are saying... Means they can probably hear me watching tv at 2 in the morning as well, oopsy!

That is just lovely!! I love hearing other couples' little "things"

**** **** **** **** **** mouse in flat...we've had bait down for over 3 weeks so clearly it hates bait! Totally creeped out and feel all gross now!

We had a mouse once, traps didn't get it. In the end we borrowed a cat and that sorted it out no problem!

I saw this earlier and meant to ask, what dance class are you going to? I started the ballet ones again last month, it's a new guy that does it and it is so much more enjoyable.

I had a mouse ober the summer but it has just disappeared (or so I hope!) Haven't seen it since and the trap didn't work. I was told to use peanut butter.

How do you know you got mice? Did you see one?

Did you inform your landlord? The council comes out for free to solve the problem if neccessary.
I also closed up some holes throughout the flat, at least in the wall I heard the mice in. Not really sure that made a difference though, I live in an old flat and I am not sure I could even close every hole.





Oh, it's a new guy? I liked the other one too, but I think it could have been more fun. Is he doing stuff very differently?

I signed up to a society at uni. They produce a show every year and do a lot of different dances. I am doing ballet and flamenco. For ballet mot people seem to have experience and I only got my beginners course, so I hope I won't be too bad. It's all taught by students though, so not very professionally, but it's close to my place and might be a way to meet new people as well as do some sports.

Same in my flat, just impossible to close every hole. I heard they can get through holes as tiny as the circumference of a pen...
I only saw mine once and never again, never touched the trap either. I am no sure what I could do at this point, so am just ignoring it, hoping she found a better place downstairs in the restaurant I never told my landlord, should I have done that? As the problem seemed to have disappeared...

If the mice are still there he surely shouldn't have taken the baits? Maybe call the council anyway? I checked for myself and the Glasgow council offers a free servcie to analyse the situation and resolve the problem. Probably cheaper for your landlord, too.

Unfortunately I think pets aren't allowed in our tenancy agreement...although I may talk to landlord and be like FFS I DON'T WANT MICE!

They weren't in ours either. Thankfully the cat wasn't a permenant addition to our house (even though everyone else wanted to keep it) as I don't really like animals, not a pet lover and have a cat allergy.

The mouse wasn't too bad, seem to be a really common problem with old houses. My friend once found one sitting on her kitchen worktop eating the breakfast cereal. Prefered the house having mice to the slugs that were crawling out of holes in my second year house. That was DISGUSTING!!! Had to use about 5kg of salt to defend the house, literally poured mountains of salt around the entire outside walls and all around the kitchen walls inside too.

Oh god, we had slugs in our kitchen at one point last year. I went into the shed, found some slug pellets in there and put about three feet of slug pellets and salt around the outside edge of the kitchen. Soooooo disgusting. In a way I'd actually prefer mice because slugs are so slimy and ****ing vile. Ughhhhh. The boy will be staying at my student house for the first month or so of this term (he doesn't start back at naval college in Newcastle til near the end of November for some bizarre reason) so if I come across any grossness like that again I'll be asking him to get rid of it!

Mice-wise, if you're using bait on traps then don't use cheese, they're actually not that keen on it. Apparently chocolate spread is effective. Other than that and possibly acquiring a cat for a while then I'm not sure what else to suggest but I really feel for you, pest problems in student housing are awful.

That build a bear is so cute! I'm not much of a bears and cutesy presents person but I actually really like build a bears because of how you can personalise them. The boy and I were talking about pets earlier, funnily enough, and I was talking about how I'm not keen on small yappy dogs and he was like "well if our kids ever asked for a dog I wouldn't say no" and it was like AWWWWWWWDSBVKAJS

Just ended up breaking down on my housemates shoulder.... feeling really silly/pathetic atm.