The mosquito, the mouse and the gecko…

Went into a small flat in Deoghar to live. That’s the end of it, it wasn’t a joke I was just saying!

As the seasons change so do the things that go nibble in the night and as it turns out my flatmate and I have set up an international restaurant in Deoghar,for mosquitos. Sadly they love us both and they have two pretty long buffets to choose from and I am pained to report that they have managed to bite me on my… bottom, which is rather uncomfortable considering I have spent 15 hours in a car this week. We have rather hastily put up our mosquito nets in order to stop the mosquitos getting us during the night but it doesn’t stop them during waking hours and they really are hell bent on eating us.

When I put up my net I tucked it all in like a good girl and lay down and read for a while and was just about to jump out of bed to turn out the light when the gecko that decided he was going to join me in bed got a little spooked. I explained to him that yes I do love geckos just not in that way and he jumped from the bed and ran full pelt into the table, banging his head quite badly. He is now suffering from a broken heart and a rather bad head and hasn’t been seen since which is a shame as the spiders are taking over in a big way.

We also have the lovely Eric (the mouse) – who rather rudely I feel has been jumping on my flatmates bed, when she was in it! We have spent the day scrubbing the kitchen surfaces and floor as this is his favourite domain and it seems he has been using it as a race track, leaving mouse presents wherever he can – how charming! We have a humane trap set up for him, but he’s simply not that stupid enough for that. So holes that look like they can fit a mouse have been filled and all food is stored away and most of it is in the fridge, now I'm pretty sure he can't open that.

We have an anti-vermin force field outside the flat including anti mosquito coils, poison, holes stuffed with stones plastic bags and covered in duct tape. Inside we have plug ins, electric tennis racket things to kill mosquitos, mosquito nets, traps and more poison… has it worked? Not a jot but it made us feel better!