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Date: 26 September 2008 18:52:19
Those who read this blog, someone must because I've had 13000 visits, might remember me writing about the presents left by our cats. Lately I've been wondering if there maybe a link with something else.
We have lived in our house for 2 years - it was the anniversary the other day. We've had the cats for the same amount of time. Until about 2 months ago the most they'd brought us was a few birds, the odd mouse and numerous moths and butterflies.
2 months ago we started getting baby rats deposited on our doormat, on the stairs and on our bed. Why have we started getting these now? What has changed in the last few months for us to have been left around 12 of them in such a short space of time?
Could there be any link with the change of rubbish collections to fortnightly, alternating between food/garden waste and general waste? I'm sure that the council will tell us that this is not correct but I'm not convinced.
History Today:
1580: Plymouth sees the return of Francis Drake from his circumnavigation of the world, the first by an Englishman. Of course, the great Welsh explorer - Jones The Sail - had already done this 400 years before in his coracle.
1687: Though it had survived unscathed since 432 BC, the Parthenon is severely damaged by a gunpowder explosion. See, it hasn't always been a 'ruin'.
1907: A Royal Proclomation changes the status of New Zealand from a colony to a Dominion.
1934: Queen Mary launches a crusie liner - also called Queen Mary.
1944: Operation Market Garden ends in failure. Though the bridges at Eindhoven & Nijmegen had been siezed the main bridge at Arnhem remained in German hands and the British & Polish paratroopers were cut off from the allied thrust. They had survived for 7 days, originally they were to hold for 3. Another great folly in British military history.
1960: The first ever Presidential Candidate Debate takes place between Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon.
1969: The Beatles realese Abbey Road, their final studio album.
1984: Britain agrees that Hong Kong would handed back to China in 1997, as per the original agreement, It would end 150 years of British rule.