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  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Community Member Posts: 1,015 Empowering

    Going to my Monday's stuff. But it is hard to leave home. It is very frustrating to having to deal with another long day and of course i am scared I will be call this week by Uc. That I will maybe lose some of the money. That I will lose my benefits etc... every day is the same. Hard to cope

  • Elvisdog
    Elvisdog Community Member Posts: 193 Empowering

    @Catherine21 thank you for your very kind words and thoughts. As a single parent I had to give up being a wages supervisor, a job I loved. My sons both had reflex anoxic seizure's, and later got their Autistic diagnosis, and other Neurodivergent's. I was back and fourth to hospitals. I didn't even know about DLA with my first son, until he was about 7yrs old and the consultant mentioned it to me. I'm sure we are all very brave and deserving people on this site. We are fighters for our causes and rights. Knowing I will eventually lose the disability transitional protection from ESA SG to UC in the future is a worry already. All we can do is to carry on with the fight.

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Community Member Posts: 1,015 Empowering
    edited July 2025

    Ok back home. I just got an email from UC about a phonecall I will have on Wednesday. I have not transitioned yet. This anxiety will kill me. Do anybody know what that first call is about. I am so so scared. I am not sure If I have to be in front of a computer or what they will be asking. Or will be only to confirm it is me. I do not know ..... I am going to relax.. I am shattered. Maybe I am lucky and I will win the lottery. If I miss the phone call will be a failed appointment .... Anyway I will not think about it Wednesday is the phone call

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Community Member Posts: 3,916 Championing

    Help I just saw a mouse run across kitchen floor

    I've trued everything to fet rid I'd them naturally

    Plug ins, peppermint oil

    I vac up the droppings

    Were even behind kitchen bin. Yuk

    Mouse man. Charges 65 pounds a visit but I don't want poisons I have cats

    I sweep ckean and vacvuum

    Still in. Finding dropping s on my worktop

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Community Member Posts: 1,015 Empowering

    Apparently mice hate ammonia. Also vinegar citronella etc... I would not mix though.. also there is one bleeper thing... Makes a noise every few seconds.. I don't like mice nor rats ...

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Community Member Posts: 1,015 Empowering

    Also spices cinnamon cloves etc.. chilli.. as well ..

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Community Member Posts: 1,015 Empowering

    Good luck . Make your cats get rid of them .. anyway.. it seems also bay leaves.

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Community Member Posts: 1,015 Empowering
  • luvpink
    luvpink Community Member Posts: 4,541 Championing

    I have had a pleasant day having a stay cation in a holiday park in Hayle Cornwall.

    I am here until Friday and the weather forecast is sunshine all week.

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 5,307 Online Community Team

    That sounds lovely @luvpink. Cornwall is gorgeous, isn't it. ๐Ÿค—

  • Schildpad
    Schildpad Community Member Posts: 1,015 Empowering

    Good night . Another day passed. Keep safe .till tomorrow.

  • Teigr
    Teigr Community Member Posts: 5,080 Championing

    Morning all.

  • Elvisdog
    Elvisdog Community Member Posts: 193 Empowering

    Morning all, bright and sunny here today. A cooler breeze. I'll be honest I'm not looking forward to the next heatwave that's on the way. I'm not a sun worshiper lol

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  • Albus_Alumni
    Albus_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 11,423 Championing

    That's a beautiful view to start the day with @Elvisdog thanks for sharing. ๐Ÿ˜Š

    I hope everyone's doing ok today and will be keeping themselves lovely and cool.

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Community Member Posts: 3,916 Championing

    Not great

    Been cleaning kitchen

    I'm. Over run with mice

    Nothing works

    So many droppings in the kitchen

    I ckean all the time

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Community Member Posts: 3,916 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1046250#Comment_1046250

    Yes kitchen door is open in the day

    I only shut it at night

    No no. Idea where they are getting in but found them under the sink where I keep cleaning products

    So I thought I'd go to the hardware shop for steel wool and expanding foam and try using it bavm if cabinet s

  • Elvisdog
    Elvisdog Community Member Posts: 193 Empowering

    @Amberpearl I have had a similar experience with mice now and then, and actually had one in my kitchen the weekend, they can get into the smallest of holes, I had to use the wire wool on the outside of the house, where my washing pipe is and it has helped I had my back door open letting my dog in, and I have extractor fans in the wall and bathroom. My cat is an indoor cat and she catches and kills them, it's not the most nicest of methods but im terrified of mice and rats, i also tried the peppermint oil, I had the plug which I think did help, I only seem to get one or two a time, so not much droppings. I think the plug and blocking holes with wire wool works the best, there are also sticky mats and traps with a bit of peanut butter which they love but it's not very humane or pleasant. Good luck.

  • Elvisdog
    Elvisdog Community Member Posts: 193 Empowering

    @Catherine21 no such luck, it's a picture from Tichwell in Norfolk an RSPB Sight, ive stayed at a couple of their sites, the accommodation was a lovely big house, but not very cheap, my mum and dad are keen birdwatchers and my dad is a rRSPB warden at upton Warren. I loved it their im a novice birdwatcher. It was the sunniest picture I had without people on it lol.

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Community Member Posts: 3,916 Championing

    I don't know anyone with a Terrier

    My cats not caught any

    My cats are all ind cats. I. So have a secure catio

    I. Been. To the shop and got steel wool and spray foam.

    I. Don't know where that are coming from but I've seen. Many droppings in the cupboards under sink where cleaning products are. And dropping a behind the bin. I saw my cat milo staring at the skirting boards in kitchen I. Moved a cat bed and a grey mouse ran out and went into my pantry

    I. Couldn't find it

    On my worktops at the bavk next to wall I keep finding a line of droppings from the mug tree and kettle past the bread bin toaster sink caddy where washing up liquid is and they have got into a box of fortiflora for my cats stomach it's a priobotic anf they've even ate that!!, cost me 30 pounds too. So upset

    The droppings continues to end of worktop

    I removed cats treat a. Empty bag. They even. Ate 2 4k bags of dry cat biscuits omg

    I can't believe it

    I've got all my food in carrier bags over doors in the lounge for weeks now

    It's never ending

    Ite really freaking me out

    I don't know where to. Start putting the wire wool

    I've had so much stress and bad luck I. Could cry

    I'm. Trying to find solutions

    I. Can't afford pest control. Plus he d prob use poison

    Nice have even chewsed cardboard too

    I put crisps on top of fridge freezer, thought they be safe

    Nope, they ate all my crisps, biscuits and cereal now cat food

    I'm. Really very upset

  • Elvisdog
    Elvisdog Community Member Posts: 193 Empowering

    @Catherine21 the RSPB sites are protected similar to the National Trust, there are alot of them all over the UK. you can join the RSPB and go onto any of the sites, you get a car sticker and pass, their magazine. If you want to visit some of the bigger sites you can have volunteers who operate the car park and charge a small amount to go on the site. Some have a shop, such as one in Weymouth and Slimbridge.

    I love Robins and Wrens but my favourite birds are owls, which i never seem to see and pirds of prey such as Marsh Harriers that ive seen in Norfolk and kites down south.

    Spring Watch go on alot of the RSPB sites some of which I've been too. You can see deer's and bat's, I love nature and the sounds of different birds. It's so peaceful.

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    This is a Great Tit in my mum and dad's garden this spring.

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    Great White Egret above.

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