General things that Annoy you

The Tesco Christmas ads with the annoying teenager, not funny just pathetic.

Should Ask DamoNorthStand what the process would be for those adverts getting past the drawing board. Think he is director of an advertising company.

purdis said:

Moles.

The feckin molehills on our lawn are the size of active volcanoes.

My mate said I should stick rose branches down into the hole because they bleed to death when they get cut on the thorns - couldn't bring myself to do it.

Can't find a plan B, though.

All alternative, organic solutions welcomed.

Aren't there some ultrasound transmitters that you stick in the ground to drive them away?

This kind of thing http://www.amazon.co.uk/Solar-Powered-Repeller-Ultrasonic-Sonic/dp/B003TLA4L2

purdis said:

Moles.

The feckin molehills on our lawn are the size of active volcanoes.

My mate said I should stick rose branches down into the hole because they bleed to death when they get cut on the thorns - couldn't bring myself to do it.

Can't find a plan B, though.

All alternative, organic solutions welcomed.

Scissor traps Purd, find the main moles galleries and set the traps, but DO NOT TOUCH THE TRIGGER WITH YOUR BARE HANDS, cover your hand in dirt and then set the trap. Put about 5 traps down and leave them there for a few days and you should see some results. (Depending on how deep the galleries are, you can see if the trap has been activated from the top, if the ends are closed it's still primed, if they're apart it's been activated)

Traps are the most humane and organic way to deal with moles, you cannot rehome them and any other method is not humane. Please don'y use rose branches or glass as some people would advise.


Good luck

People that scurry around art exhibitions taking pictures of every exhibit without ever stopping to look at them.

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

purdis said:

Moles.

The feckin molehills on our lawn are the size of active volcanoes.

My mate said I should stick rose branches down into the hole because they bleed to death when they get cut on the thorns - couldn't bring myself to do it.

Can't find a plan B, though.

All alternative, organic solutions welcomed.

Scissor traps Purd, find the main moles galleries and set the traps, but DO NOT TOUCH THE TRIGGER WITH YOUR BARE HANDS, cover your hand in dirt and then set the trap. Put about 5 traps down and leave them there for a few days and you should see some results. (Depending on how deep the galleries are, you can see if the trap has been activated from the top, if the ends are closed it's still primed, if they're apart it's been activated)

Traps are the most humane and organic way to deal with moles, you cannot rehome them and any other method is not humane. Please don'y use rose branches or glass as some people would advise.


Good luck

So murdering them in their natural habitat is humane?

Nice one.

Algarveaddick said:

Some regular visitors/friends from the UK said if we were booking our (and their) favourite restaurant for NYE, would we book for them to join us too. In September I mentioned it to the owner, Sergio, and believe it or not they were already booked up, but because we are old pals he said he would find a way to prize the two of us in. As we had said we would go with our friends, and didn't want to do an "I'm alright Jack" we reluctantly declined. We have since made arrangements - although not booked yet, as the restaurant in question have still not got their shit together - to go elsewhere, along with the couple mentioned and 10 others. Yesterday I got a message from the friends saying the Sergio has called and said they have two cancellations - Sergio obviously not realising that these were the two friends that we didn't want to let down... It's too late for us to pull out of the second "booking" as all the others are expecting us to be there now, so we end up missing out on the night out we really wanted, and the couple we sacrificed it for are going. No-ones fault, but bloody annoying all the same...

Is that what they call a First World problem?

women doing their make up on the train to work in the morning, not a quick check in the mirror and touch up, I mean doing the lot.

Dazzler21 said:

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

purdis said:

Moles.

The feckin molehills on our lawn are the size of active volcanoes.

My mate said I should stick rose branches down into the hole because they bleed to death when they get cut on the thorns - couldn't bring myself to do it.

Can't find a plan B, though.

All alternative, organic solutions welcomed.

Scissor traps Purd, find the main moles galleries and set the traps, but DO NOT TOUCH THE TRIGGER WITH YOUR BARE HANDS, cover your hand in dirt and then set the trap. Put about 5 traps down and leave them there for a few days and you should see some results. (Depending on how deep the galleries are, you can see if the trap has been activated from the top, if the ends are closed it's still primed, if they're apart it's been activated)

Traps are the most humane and organic way to deal with moles, you cannot rehome them and any other method is not humane. Please don'y use rose branches or glass as some people would advise.


Good luck

So murdering them in their natural habitat is humane?

Nice one.

Yeah, you got it Daz

Dazzler21 said:

Cool.

Cheers.

p.s I understand it's far more humane than the other murders mentioned of glass and thorns.

Just disagree with needless killing of wildlife, unless it's going on my dinner plate.

Point taken but no alternative. Once the moles are in, they're in to stay with devastating consequences to gardens.

I did ask them to move to the field next door, even left notes out for them, pleading for their understanding - got nothing but attitude - the more I asked, the more they increased their onslaught.

Hadn't realised they had such poor poor eyesight so would have been unable to read my well-argued, neighbour-friendly begging letters.

PS I would never use the rose thorn or broken glass methods and, like you, would much rather they just went away on their own accord.

Redskin said:

People that scurry around art exhibitions taking pictures of every exhibit without ever stopping to look at them.

Also at gigs, everyone is too busy filming it so they can look at it later, just enjoy the bloody gig atmosphere, its what you are there for.

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

Dazzler21 said:

Cool.

Cheers.

p.s I understand it's far more humane than the other murders mentioned of glass and thorns.

Just disagree with needless killing of wildlife, unless it's going on my dinner plate.

I disagree with the pointless killing of wildlife an all, but this ain't pointless is it

are you making a mole stew?

Greenie said:

Redskin said:

People that scurry around art exhibitions taking pictures of every exhibit without ever stopping to look at them.

Also at gigs, everyone is too busy filming it so they can look at it later, just enjoy the bloody gig atmosphere, its what you are there for.

My bad ; )

Redskin said:

People that scurry around art exhibitions taking pictures of every exhibit without ever stopping to look at them.

Were you listening to James O'Brien on LBC yesterday?

i_b_b_o_r_g said:

Dazzler21 said:

Cool.

Cheers.

p.s I understand it's far more humane than the other murders mentioned of glass and thorns.

Just disagree with needless killing of wildlife, unless it's going on my dinner plate.

I disagree with the pointless killing of wildlife an all, but this ain't pointless is it

I know, a lawn is an absolute human right.