North & South

PEST DETECTIVE

SOME EARTHLY pleasures are like Instant Kiwi for lifestyle-blockers: digging into the dirt to find the light-gold moon of a new potato, lifting the lid on the chook-house nesting box to find freshly laid eggs, or checking the trap to see the squished corpse of a rat – teeth bared in its final anger.

I know, sorry. I should have prefaced that with a parental warning

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