Page 32 The revenge of the squirrels.

Page 32

The revenge of the squirrels.

It has been such a busy time at mothers, I really don’t know where to start.

It began as a very normal week, I called in to mothers intending on doing the normal chores, having a bit of a discussion here and there when ever mother became obstinate. You know, life, with mother.

“It’s a complete disaster, you will never guess what has happened” mother greeted me with.

“Alright calm down, what’s gone wrong” dear me mothers upset.

“The cleaner was doing upstairs and she saw some white stuff on the carpet, looked up and there is a hole appearing in the ceiling. The roof must be leaking” mother is so dramatic.

“I will have a look” and off up the stairs I went. There was a small hole appearing no damp patch just small holes as if…

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“Mother you either have squirrels in the roof space or rats”

“What!! How have they got in there, well I have never heard them scratching around so you must be wrong” was mothers verdict.

“Mother you don’t hear me talking when I am in the same room, you have no chance of hearing something upstairs” mother!! She glared at me but it is true, mother cannot hear a thing half the time.

“Well they can stay where they are, I am not paying for them to be removed” (here we go again)

“Mother they could cause an electrical fire if they chew though the cables” lets hit her with the facts.

“If they do, at least I will die in my own bed” (now she is being unreasonable)

“What if they get through the ceiling and come down here, you know the bed room door doesn’t shut properly. They might attack you” (wait for it)

“I don’t want squirrels running around the house. Horrible creatures” now mother is worried.

“Well they might, there is already a hole appearing” (I know, I am being cruel. At least now she is thinking reasonably)

“Who do we call” was mother’s instant reply. (eureka, I resist the dance of triumph. just)

“I will look in the phone book” and of I went the number was found and an appointment made for the inspection.

The next day as promised a chap turned up to inspect the problem. The verdict squirrels.

“I expect it’s their revenge because I stopped them going up the bird feeder” I laughed.

“It’s possibly because you were feeding the birds that they invaded the roof” he said sternly “we advise people not to leave anything out for the birds because of the problems squirrels cause” (whoa, have we just been told off or what)

Well, he went back into the roof space to put down whatever it is they use to remove squirrels, when all of a sudden he was back as white as a sheet saying,

“I very nearly went through the ceiling, a squirrel shot out of the dray and ran over my foot. Scared me half to death”

 we were so sympathetic, of cause we were until he left and laugh, we cried,

“That’s the squirrels revenge for telling us off” I giggled.

“Don’t mother” mother laughed, “I expect it really frightened him”.

“Good job he didn’t go through the ceiling, I would have had an even bigger hole to fix” I said.

That started us off laughing again. Poor bloke if only he knew what fun he had given us.

Till next time