The pest I’ll never forget: I awoke to the sound of my bedroom bin rustling

At first the mice were just a distant pitter-patter. But soon they had an unblinking confidence that they owned the entire house and all the food in it Living in a nine-person house in Vancouver, Canada, far from my UK home, came with plenty of benefits. Cleanliness was not one…

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