What is living in the loft?
Whatever is up there makes a quiet but constant sort of skittery, rustling sound.
We've been listening to it on and off all night and this morning came to the conclusion we'll have to look.
"You're the man" I said "have a look."
"I'm not keen." he said.
"All you have to do is stick your head up through the hatch and have a quick look, just to see if there's anything obvious, you can be really quick." I'd make a good foreman.
So, hero that he is, he went to tog himself up for the endeavour.
He came back with a torch, the vacuum cleaner and wearing his gardening gloves.
"Gloves?" I asked
"You never know" he said.
He positioned a stool below the hatch and nervously pushed the hatch up whilst I bravely listen.
"Go on then" I said
"I'm just thinking about it" he said.
"Oh for goodness sake!" and I hopped on the stool and shone the torch towards the sound.
Luckily I wasn't quite tall enough to see far enough over the edge.
"I'm not tall enough to see far enough over the edge" I said "you'll have to look."
We changed places and he diligently looked.
"There's lots of dead wasps but nothing obvious, perhaps whatever it is, is living under the insulation."
He came back down and as neither of us is inclined to crawl along the vary small space and look more closely, we have decided that at the moment, we will live with what ever's up there.
Termites don't live in England do they?
14 comments:
sycophants.
Get a pest controller in. A proper one. Before whatever it is burrows through the ceiling and starts to feast on you while you sleep.
I hope that this helps.
Nah! termites work from the ground up. Are you sure Himself didn't drop a termite on your leg?
Ha Ha Ha!!! I lived with those kinds of sounds for an entire year!
It's a squirrel, Ziggi Girrel. Or mice. Just zap 'em and throw 'em in your cauldron.
Now Himself can put the vacuum cleaner away.
And I would comment on the six-inch nail hole post from the post above, but I can't see how to do that.
I think you'd better go to the hospital, seriously. That doesn't look good.
M - and getting sicker by the minute.
V - I was worried about that myself but luckily the noise is keeping me awake.
D - what starts at the top and works down then?!
WW - I think mice and sqiggles would make a less consistent sorta noise - I think it's insects of some kind - probably wasps again but can't see the nest. As for the leg, well I was surprised to wake up alive. I felt sure that I'd be getting tetanus any minute, and still could of course . . . we thought about the hospital but the food's awful so we went to the pub instead.
Horses. Building a nest.
It might be birds. I have them nesting in my loft. Or a wasps nest. Take a look outside during the day and see if you can see anything flying in and out.
Squirrels would be chewing through your electric cables and electrocuting themselves. Least, that's what they do round these parts.
Ouch! That thigh looks nasty but what about Himself? is he wearing a fence-post necklace?
probably squirrels. maybe bats.
um, when was your last tetanus shot? that nail hole is worrying.
I'm stickin' to my story: it's squirrels or mice or, as CP says, maybe birds.
Wasps don't make sounds that you can hear that much.
I really do hope that nail hole in your thigh is OK and I wonder how deep the nail went. It looks brutal, Ziggi.
I hope it's squirrels; they're sooooo tasty! Not kidding. Grey squirrel is simply delicious. Not much meat on the forequarters, but the back half of an adult can weigh 8oz. Marinate in soy and 5-spice, then slap on the barbie. Lovely!
D - I think not, they're not good with loft ladders.
CP - he's v v v v v sorry, as am I as there is now an unfashionable hole in my Calvin Klein jeans. I have had a look as per you instructions and indeed there are biggish looking insecty flying things going in under the leading round the dormer window - now what shall I do?
CB - 1991 - it's a bit red and swollen (and it hurts) but my jaw would have seized up now wouldn't it??
WW - these are not noisy, they just make a (quiet) noise all the time! Nail probably went in about metre - that's what it felt like anyway! In truth only about 1/4 inch I guess - I'm being very brave! I only scream when I forget and cross my legs.
RC - welcome and thank you for the recipe - normally I stick to eye of newt, toe of frog, wool of bat, and tongue of dog but will certainly consider squirrel should I come across one.
whispers... rats
I would have said squirrels, from your description (having lived in a house with squirrels in the loft)
in fact I would have said OUCH!!!!
poor you, that looks so painful - can't imagine what it felt like
squirrels or hornets
call in pest control and when they've dealt with Himself, let them loose in the loft
;-)
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