You know the parties you sometimes read about in the newspapers? The ones where some naïve teenager advertises it on Facebook, loads of strangers turn up, get drunk and noisily trash the house? Well, I think that’s what the mice were doing last night! There was most definitely a riotous party going on directly above my head, and there were some very loud crashes and bangs from the loft. I know that everything sounds louder and scarier at 2 o’clock in the morning, but some of the crashes were so loud that they really made me jump. I don’t actually know what is in the loft in that part of the house, as it’s pretty difficult to get to (for a human anyway – obviously not for the mice!). But whatever it is has clearly been knocked over.
I’m hoping that what was happening was that the mice had found the bait and were greedily consuming it – it does seem to make them clumsy and therefore louder. If so, things should quieten down again in a day or two. If not, I think I’ll have to move to the spare room for a few nights – I can tolerate a bad night at the weekend, but it’s harder to deal with when I’ve got to go to work.
