Top Tip before you move a compost bin

[green thing]

Before lifting up the outer plastic bit of your compost bin full of compost




Tuck you trousers into your socks !!!!!!



Why ??



I found them





hundreds of them







Mice

[donnakebab]

OMG! What a shock that must have been.

Definitely a top tip!

[Patchninja]

Aaarrgghh!

[taff]

next top tip....water the compost bin well before you attempt to move it

[lottie dolly]

OH MY WORD,big scream and run,even with pants tucked in,yes am not brave,well that close up shivers

[Florence Fennel]

I'd have run a mile - where did they go?

[julesapple]

Don't think we've got meeces in ours, not with ten cats in the vicinity. I love the slow worms though - so pretty!

[Shadylane]

I quite like mice but....eww *shudders*

[winstonwobble]

better than rats though!!

[BarleySugar]

When I emptied one of mine last weekend I found an empty nest, but no occupants. I wonder if they got wind of my intentions and moved to the next bin

[keepitgreen]

Did one run up your leg?

[Florence Fennel]

Of course, they're more afraid of you than you are of them (that doesn't apply to me) but cue my favourite smiley:

[jps]

good advice, i need to empty mine anyway.

i shall make sure my cats are nearby, the mice wont stand a chance!

[green thing]

I've been moving things around on my new plot the compost bins have been disused for sometime
and have been over grown with ivy

I've had a problem with mice eating my shed and everything in it
now I know where they came from

it took a few seconds for me to figure out why the ground was moving
around my feet ?

most of them went into the dry stone wall under the shed and into the long grass.
one was just sitting on top of the compost heap looking at me !!

I've been back today for a poke around

No mice

my mp3 headphones have been eaten ahhh

[Madasafish]

Surely better to take cat and put into compost bin as a precaution?

:-)