Monday, September 12, 2011

Pottle packers

Robbie Burns did say that 'the best laid plans of mice & men often go astray'. -Hopefully the rest of the plans will go Ok. We intended to buy the rat poison for our pulse in nifty clean little potato starch pouches called 'strikers', with which we would then frolick through the forest and staple them easily onto trees for rats to eat. But alas the whole country wanted the same thing at the same time and we couldn't get them SO the pottle packing team has together drilled, packed, squashed, weighed and re-packed almost 1200 pottles of pre-feed and poison. It has taken a lot of time and preparation and freaky gloves and cost us a lot more. But I must admit it was quite a nice communal experience spending a bit of time together on the production line, we even got fish 'n' chips for smoko.
Now the pre-feed has been put out, the rats already have eaten it and are keen for more, they'll just have to wait til the weekend. It might even snow, -that's not in the plan! But the rest of the plan is to meet at the end of Gunpit rd at 9am Saturday 17th and to spend probably 2 hours nailing the pottles to trees at the rat locations. If you're keen to come all you need are gumboots, or normal boots, or lace up gumbooots. We will tell you everything you need to know on the day, -all things going to plan!
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