A good rat is a trapped rat

May 2019

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Photo: Matthew Cattin
Thanks to my colleague Matthew, I now have a wooden box in my garden housing a rat trap. Baited with peanut butter, it’s primed to come down hard on any rat that pokes its head in. Unfortunately – and to the dismay of my daughter, who checks it first thing every morning – we have […]
Alistair Hall

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