Return of the rodents
A few years ago I had a page on my web site detailing my troubles with mice. This was at a time when we lived in a tumbledown country cottage, which tumbled down in a manner very attractive to mice. They loved making homes inside the walls and the loft spaces, and they especially loved to make our lives a misery by making scratching noises all night long, or passing away in inconvenient places and stinking the whole house out while their furry little bodies rotted away.
My mouse page was only a few hundreds words of waffle by me, but it attracted thousands of comments over a period of two years. I completely owned Google searches for “How to catch mice”, something I was proud of for a while. I should have slapped some ads on the page and made a few quid, but I never bothered.
Anyway, that version of my site was retired in favour of another, and the mouse page lingered comment-less for a while before disappearing altogether.
Now rodents have returned to my life, but in a good way. In recent weeks I’ve been working with Steve Johnston, writing copy for a web site for a company called Green Shield, who make electronic pest control gadgets.
Such is the never-ending variety of a freelance writer’s life. One day the oil business, another day Mac stuff, the next day rat facts. All in a day’s work.
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