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Well, my little flat is gradually getting more and more liveable. I've made tissue-paper blinds to obscure the front windows, but with my lack of craft abilities they've come out styled not so much Japanese as Crapanese. But hey, at least I'm not providing a floorshow for the local subway station any more (much to the neighbourhood's relief).
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I'm finding it easiest to just do one thing at a time and then reassess at each stage - so for example I resisted buying a lampshade that I quite liked because I don't know whether the front room will need 'smartening up' or 'making more cosy' once the white venetian blinds are up (once I've got the money!).
Rats come in three degrees of horribleness:
Rubbish-dump rats: the main problem is not that they make a mess, but that they've got itchy teeth and often gnaw through wiring etc. Expensive to fix.
Infected rats: Weill's disease is very common in the UK. Rats become carriers by drinking infected water, and transmit it in their pee. Humans usually catch it by swimming in water (and accidentally drinking a bit of it) that infected rats have peed in. But of course, if a rat pees on my counter and I then make sandwiches ... Hence all the bleaching and scrubbing. Weill's disease is a fluey kind of infection with about a 7% fatality rate.
Sewer rats: Here we have a whole grab-bag of infectious nasties, but although the gastroenteritis bunch are no fun, the main worries are hepatitis and cholera.
In London it's estimated that you are never further than 2 metres from a rat at any time.
Hey, you think I should write for the tourist board? :o)
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