We have had our first glimpse this year of the beast that stalks our garden.
As we were getting ready to head off on our camping Weekend in the High Peak, there it was sunning itself in my drystone vegetable bed.
It’s evil.
It digs the very seeds out of my plant pots.
It chops my french bean stalks off at ground level.
It feeds when no one is watching and then hides itself in the cracks in the wall.
But look…
…look!
It’s so cute it hurts!
I think I’d rather have an evil looking garden foe. Something that I feel better about targeting.
I am currently thinking of a ‘work around’ so that I don’t have to deal with the tiny critter.
His cockiness to sit there whilst I took this was quite enchanting.
Until I realised that he was so snoozy because he just eaten one of my plants.
Grr.
Things we make 
Sarah, Maison Cupcake
April 11, 2010
What is it? A gerbil? it’s too cute to be a rat surely? Looks too big and too much of a pretty colour to be a common mouse.
Jules
April 11, 2010
We have harvest mice, wood mice, voles & shrews visiting our garden which are all cute furry friends. But then I haven’t caught them eating anything yet! It’s the horrible rats I don’t like.
thingswemake
April 12, 2010
Sarah – it was working on it’s tan, I think that’s why it’s a pretty colour. When I take the lid off the compost heap a whole family look at me like they are in some ‘wonderful world of wildlife’ kids book. Then they scarper. They are pretty though. He ran in to his hole in the wall when the shutter closed but he came back out 2 or 3 more times. Cheeky bugger.
We had rats a couple of years ago and the Council rat man came and put some poison down. We have not put bird food out since then (which is what he advised) and they haven’t been back. There is so much natural food for the birds round here anyway.
This lot though….sheeesh. What can you do?!