Cloud, that's desperately sad. Touch wood, none of mine have lost any contemporaries, although one of DS's aquaintances has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and DS has watched him deteriorate over the years. For the first few years of primary he was able to walk, but not since. He's now doing A-levels but very unwell.
Have a nice stroll, Beachy and Rose. Sounds lovely, even with the pulling hounds.
Those mice.....I dug about in my undersink cupboard last night and found some more poison - some evil-smelling red plasticine stuff. Mice heaven apparently - it's all gone this morning. Beachy - I tried similar humane traps, and they just served as takeaway restaurants for all the yummy bait I put inside. I caught one mouse eventually, but that's all. Drove him up to the posh houses and released him there. 
Although those traps you link to look more like they mean business.
Just realised I wrote "human traps" and had to go back and correct. Although the amount of poison they're scoffing, I'm starting to wonder if there's something larger than a mouse at work.......
Off to work shortly, and there will be trouble if I don't get a card and a bottle. Big trouble. I do all the milestone birthdays at our office, buying champagne, and circulating a card, so it will be interesting to see what happens when someone else has to sort it.