Cats and mice..

Biddy mice, I know they have to eat but how disappointing for you Dan, hoping the gravel and granite deters them...

Can sympathise. Over the years have planted hundreds of daffodil bulbs all over the garden and only a couple bloomed. The mice got the rest!

(Hope you didn't have one particularly nasty bug that is doing the rounds, Dan. It really knocked my husband for six and quite a few of the doctors at the surgery! Glad you are better now.)

Thanks everyone! The offending rodent has finally left! I’m finally ‘properly’ over my surgery so straight after Christmas I’m going to get myself another Acer (haha) to mark the occasion!!

How annoying Dan. I know how you feel, we have loads of voles in the grass and all the Crocus bulbs that were planted lasted one year and never appeared again. Years ago I planted hundreds of sundry bulbs under some trees and the whole lot just were never seen again! It's depressing, all that back-breaking work planting them (I hate planting bulbs) just to feed the mice and vole population!
Hopefully you will have got rid of yours, it's all looking great. Don't forget to show us the celebratory Acer and glad to hear you are better now, just don't over do it.

I was intending on acer shopping today but there's a burst pipe on our cul di sac so we cant go out as the road is like a frozen lake! at Christmas we bought some pickled onions soaked in chilli sauce and mum had the idea of putting one in each of the holes the mice/culprit had dug as they are like bulbs! it worked! one out of four was eaten and nothing has returned for the three! hopefully said animals have learned not to mess with me!