Upstairs in my house there are cupboards. Loads of them. There are three at the top of the stairs; one has a small heater in it. Lots of blankets and quilts live in that cupboard.
One cupboard has motorbike and sailing clothes. That one is just a jumble of boots from my point of view. The 3rd one has a wicker basket. It’s tempting, but I’ve been told that it is more than my life is worth to test it out with my claws. F says her grandma got it for a wedding present in 1920. So it’s really old but they still use it.
Anyway I prefer cardboard.
Better than the cupboards on the landing are the low cupboards along either side of the bedrooms. They’ve got sliding doors so I have to ask to be let into those cupboards. I can’t hook them open like the others. They’ve got boxes and camping gear and Christmas decorations and model boats & aeroplanes. The boxes would be more interesting if I could get inside them, but I can squeeze through a small gap and get under their bath. I check the cupboards for mice. They don’t realize how fortunate they are for my diligence in this respect.
F was getting empty jars out of her side cupboard one day so I took the opportunity to check while she had it open. She came back for a second load and shut the door with me inside. It’s dark in there but if I climb over the skis, I can snuggle up and sleep in the plastic fibre insulation fluff where the cupboard floor ends. She got a real surprise when she opened the door that night and I stepped out!
When we first moved into the house a squirrel used to live in that cupboard! They’re noisy little blighters and he could run up the sloping narrow gap between the roof and the ceiling.
Mr B expected me to either catch it or chase it out. I like investigating the smell but I wasn’t at all keen on encountering the invader in a tight space. Mr B eventually found the hole where it was getting in, blocked it up and we’ve had no indoor squirrels since then. It’s a good thing he stopped it coming in; it was taking away all the new insulation and using it for a nest. And it was chewing everything wooden. Not only are they noisy, thieving little blighters with leaden boots and cheek for England, they are also extremely destructive.
Squirrels – gggrrrrrrrrrrrr……………….
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