Sunday 6 April 2008

Poor little mouse


My husband found this dead mouse in our shed yesterday. It must have climbed into a large paint bucket and been unable to escape.

After my exclamation of sympathy, he suggested I might want to photograph it for the blog, which I thought was a great idea (he knows me well)! One of the boys grabbed the camera and took a photo, then proceeded to make a little grave marker with a piece of wood and a permanent pen. If you click on the picture, you'll see the words better.

The mouse's little body is now interred underneath our forsythia bush, which is just coming into bloom.

2 comments:

Louise said...

How sad, he looked such a dear little mouse. He doesn't look like a house mouse, was he a wood or dormouse, I wonder? It was a very fitting tribute to bury him with a little grave marker. x

Nicola said...

I don't know, but thankfully we've never had mice in our house, just in our sheds and compost. They like to hibernate in the compost - must be fairly warm.