Blimey, this flooding thing sounds scary

[WendyWeber]

Tidal surge in E Anglia & Kent - possibly 2-3 metres

That's the worst possibility but still, it's very flat on the E Anglian coast, a small surge would go quite a long way.

Hope everybody there is ready to go if they have to!

Oh gosh SOH! - rats, dead or otherwise

Oh, should have said - glad everyone survived relatively unscathed.

Can she only catch dead ones, SOH?

Limited uses...let me see...draught excluders? garden border edges? stuffing for a cushion?

Oh, I know, you'll put them in the freezer and then sell them as reptile food!!!

I wonder why they drowned though - I mean they live in sewers etc because they can swim, don't they?

Anyway I'm very glad everybody is OK

Ohhh SoH nobody was offended by anything you said - we are just a bunch of hormonal loons!!

PMSL at the limited uses!!!

You could spray them silver and use for tree ornaments...hang by the tail, you kwim? Very seasonal imo.

No! Not offended. But I think having 2 clean, affectionate, intelligent pet rats at home made me feel sad. The footage just struck me as a little heartless - it was shown as an interesting and amusing pheonomenon. Wouldn't have been shown on a children's program about any other animal. I think I need to develop the 'ooh that's a nasty animal so it doesn't matter' mindset about rats

When it comes to diseases, I don't think you can catch Weills disease that easily, unless you are intending to kiss a wild rat or fall in a canal...neither of which I would recommend....

We have lovely pet rats too, OrmIrian, but I can still view verminy wild ones with detachment (mind you I didn't see the poor drenched one!)

(We also have a snake and feed it with dead ones bought frozen from the pet shop. I hope we never get confused )

I think that PMT has run off with my detachment wendy Had a quiet weep watching DD riding on Saturday - she finally got the hang of cantering. Everyone else was clapping and cheering - I was standing there with tears in my eyes... Pathetic!

Ohhhhhhhhhh, how wonderful - that kind of thing makes me weep too (while also cheering and clapping, obv!) Well done her!