Before we left Tanner Farm we picked up a stowaway in the form of a mouse. We were watching TV one evening when it appeared from behind the dashboard and sat watching us for a few seconds before bolting back again. The next day we found nibble marks in packets and boxes that we had to throw out. I realised we would have to catch Mickey before he chewed his way through the vehicle wiring so we fed him up oats (we had found that he liked oats) to keep him from gnawing at other things. It didn't stop him eating some Holly berries from Tricia's Christmas arrangement though. I eventually caught him using a tin tray and a Pyrex casserole dish using instructions for a humane trap that I found on the Internet. We kept him captive in a storage box and fed him on oats until we were due to leave when Tricia took him down to the end of the park and let him go. We then took off before he could track us down again and headed back to Dorset to take up residence at Wareham Forest Tourist Park, which is located near Cold Harbour between Wareham and Bere Regis. We spent a lovely Christmas with some friends in Poole and I managed to catch up with some ex-work colleagues on Christmas Eve.
Last Thursday we took the bikes off the trailer for the first time since the beginning of November. Yesterday I charged the bike batteries, which had been indoors during the cold spell, and today I fitted them and we took a ride into Poole. It felt really good to be mobile again after the enforced incarceration of the wintry weather.
This weekend we are going to the Motorhome Show at Shepton Mallet with Harvey and hopefully we will meet up with some other RVers and partake of the entertainment.
Finally for this post, we would like to wish all our blog followers a happy and prosperous New Year.
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