There's a mouse sitting under my fireplace and I may never sleep again. Help!

[Ella15]

Found it hiding behind a dehumidifier in corner of my livingroom earlier. After much screaming (a bit upset my neighbours didn't knock to check on me tbh) I fashioned a runway from where it was hiding to an opened back door then tried to scare it with a hoover so it would make its way out. Naturally, it ran in a different direction and has been sitting under my fireplace grate for last few hours. What the hell do I do? I've put some bait down but it's just going to wait it out till it gets dark isn't it?! I'm in a ground floor flat so how do I just go to bed in the next room tonight knowing it's wandering around? What can I do to get rid in the last remaining daylight hour today?? Whaaaaaaaa!! :(

I used to have pet mice, occasionally Dr Squeak would escape and go for a ramble in my sock drawer.

I had a humane trap to catch her.

They can get through tiny gaps, they can actually get through the bars of a hamster cage.

I think you should propose to the mouse catcher man. With a rodent catching super power who knows what else he can do.

Mice need to be taken about 2 miles away or they will come straight back.

@OnTheRanDan this is the spider catcher www.birdfood.co.uk/bugaway-insect-catcher-long - strongly recommend it

My cat Smoky used to present them to me in bed, he loved to give me gifts. I was his babe.
Once I woke up with something running up my leg and yes it was his latest gift.