The Great Escape of Mr Moley!

great blog Angie - never seen a mole - great pictures of it - sorry if it has destroyed anything though

Great blog Angie..I hope the ferns can be replanted with out too much damage. What a sight you must have been Lol and on little sleep. Nights are a begger to deal with sometimes really messes with your body clock.

oh thats brilliant scottish, i have never seen one either, he looked lovely ~ but the damage they do is not lovely

Its a vision to be treasured.....1 mole 3 cats a dog and a mad woman with a garden hose.....priceless....:0))))

Cracking blog Angie :)

lol that was so funny :D I'm glad Moley escaped ... I wonder if he'll be paying you another visit soon ...

Oh love it, love it, love it. Am proud of you, all in your pjs too! lol Brilliant blog. jxxx

Lovely blog. I enjoyed it.

You couldn't make it up could you ???? definetily not what one expects when you are sitting minding your own ..........
we have an old stray who has adopted us and he has brought me quite a few over time thankfully none have appeared in my garden .......hope there is not too much damage ;))

That is priceless, sorry I probably shouldn`t laugh but I`m really tickled pink, its your own fault though as its so well written and I can picture the scenes, I hope he doesn`t come back though, I`m not sure you, your garden or your pets could stand the strain, lol....
Well done with getting the pics, I`ve never actually seen one myself, however I have seen the damage done to lawns in others gardens...

oh lolol! That was funny..poor Moley..i know its all nature ..but im glad you are ALL ok! lolling at you in your pj's! I take it the window cleaners didnt witness all this! Just aswell they woke you really tho eh?

Brill blog Scot. never seen a mole either but I do rather like them, they look so soft. Images of you in your jim jams, fag in hand and three cats plus the dog LOL. Plus trying to take photos too. Where was the window cleaner in all this?? (sorry Pixi, we have said the same thing!)

I'm trying not to Lol at work! So funny :o))

Im pleased that you were all amused as I was, after fact obviously :))
The window cleaner was along the road a wee bit but I would have imagined he must have had a laugh at the cats going hell for leather at my plants.
For those who haven't seen a mole - now you know - the way their bums waddle when they run is quiet cute!
Thank you all for liking - never a dull day, eh?!
My eyes will be peeled for a return visit, I don't want him taking up residence!!!!!

Scot....now this is amazing because i was given some nice gardening mags. to read called 'The garden', they are the RHS. mag. Well I was reading through them this morning and guess what I found? An article about moles! and it is saying that if you plant Euphorbia Lathyris or Allium moly, Scilla, siberica, Frittillaria imperialis they deter moles because they dislike the smell of their roots!!! Amazing eh? Apparently there is no scientific evidence to support this idea but why not try!!

Grandmage, thank you for thinking about me and my visitor :)) Worth considering should moley return. Scilla - those bulbs up in picture 2 are exactly that and there is a euphorbia just a couple of feet away out of shot!
I do suspect though that the vast majority of the damage was done by the cats trying to get him! Well that's what I'm telling myself in the hope that he is long gone :)))

Well now you know how to keep them at bay and I wouldnt worry about keeping an eye out for 'mole' your cats will do that for you!

Only just found this.... great pics and captions :o)))

I can't help thinking a pet mole would be so cool...I can find one plenty of slugs and snails. I could keep it in a huge glass tank, and watch it dig all day. :))

"I am a mole and I live in a hole"
"I am a mole and I live in a tank"

One of those doesn't rhyme ... Lol. ;o)))

lol....best entertainment I've had this weekend, even better than the Pandas! :D

Thank you TT....pleased you enjoyed :)
P...if he comes back - I'll send him on to you 1st class :)
Karen, can you imagine how wet my slippers were? Glad I put a smile on your face :)

:D Soggy slippers, pjs, fag half hanging out of your mouth, hose in hand...I can just see it now! :D lol xx

Oh Scottish that is hilarious. I was sitting here cursing the rain as I am desperate to get out and get on in the garden but I would not have missed this for the world. Well done. I thought Hywel was the champion of bloggers but I'm so glad you joined GOY because between you, you make the world a lovely exciting place to be. lolololol!!!!! look on the wild side of life (singing).

Cursing the rain myself Sheila - I am really fed up with it now!!! Glad I managed to entertain and put a smile on your face. Thank you for the compliments - there really are appreciated.
How are you anyway - you haven't been on lately.

Been away down south for a few days and took my time recovering until Sunday when I got quite a lot of shifting around done before a friend arrived in the afternoon. I brought back another car load of plants which was mad really because I have plenty to be getting on with at the moment. We went in to Dobbies in Dunfermline yesterday and I got an Olearia ( a New Zealand shrub with a scented tiny daisy flower) which I hope will survive. I have had one before but they are a bit iffy up here. The gardener said he had never seen one before. If anything today has been worse than the other rainy days we have had because it is so fine and wetting. I took my camera battery charger with me and although I have not finished the unpacking I can't find it anywhere or I would have had some pics of what is flowering now. I was very excited to find the Geranium 'Hocus Pocus' starting to flower. It has very dark bronze foliage and deep lavendar blue flowers. Both Pink Marble and the physocarpus have settled in well and are looking really good. Thanks for the laugh.

LOL... great fun, Scottish! ( Much more entertaining than my Rufus' fun up a tree!) ...and it has a good old happy ending! Poor Moley...I wasn't fast enough...and the poor little mouse was mauled too severely to survive.

Thanks Lori....I hate when they come home with a half mauled animal. It makes me sad to have to do the final deed!

Agreed! But that is nature...red in tooth and claw...

How privledged you are to have one,and to see it! My poor motherinlaw has huge mounds all over her lawn,and her son is a man possesed trying to kill em,I rather like them,so cute,i want one!

Not sure priveledged would be the correct word Tropicalbabe - as you poor MIL will confirm. Not bothered with them in the garden but there are problems in the area around our village but the council don't do anything about them now.
They are very cute though :)