[shillelagh]

One day sunbathing in my back garden a rat ran out from underneath next doors shed and ran underneath the sunbed i was lying on then into the bushes at the back of my garden. Turned out we were in the middle of a rat run. One of the houses further on up the road bred budgies and the birdseed had fallen down through the cracks in the shed and there was a nest of rats underneath and they'd made a run through all the gardens on the estate backing onto this house oh and the house owner knew about this and had the pest control officer out but not said a word to anyone else about it - even though there were kids and old people in the vicinity.