There are mice at Parliament Square. I noticed them a few months ago when I was hanging out with Brian one evening. They are small and very fast and although they are used to humans and race around your feet, they’re quite twitchy.
When we had brought our food rations back to the tent, we decided to keep the tins and cartons in the entrance, and the other foods, like the bread, rice, pasta, fruit & veg etc. in the inner tent where we sleep so the mice wouldn’t get at them.
That night I heard plenty of mouse noises, scurrying and squeeks, and felt quite chuffed that they knew there was food in the tent with us but they couldn’t have it! I even saw a couple of mice climbing up the inner tent we were in, trying to find a way to the food.
At about 6.30am I woke up, opened my eyes and saw a mouse run over Ben’s clothes! They were in the tent!
I didn’t panic, I wasn’t that bothered because they hide as soon as you move, so they’re more scared of us. I woke Ben up and told him we had mice in the tent, it took a few minutes to register with him as he slowly came round from his sleep! Ben saw the hole they had knawed to get into the tent and pointed it out.
We eventually got out of our tent and took a look at our food, they had nibbled through the ASDA bag and plastic bags of both our loaves of bread, and helped them selves to some peanuts by knawing through the bag. They had also left droppings.
We’ve decided to tear off the bread that has been nibbled and eat the rest since these slices of bread are our breakfast and lunch for the next few days. I also taped up the hole, and found 3 other holes which I taped up too! We’ve also put the food which was in our tent into plastic boxes with lids which we borrowed, and we’re keeping them out of our inner tent from now on!
