I forgot to tell you about the rat 🐀, no not that one, his brother or sister, cousin or friend, the other one! On my first day at Innocents home last Sunday Judith, Innocents mum, was helping me to unpack a few things I leave in Uganda, from the metal trunk. She noticed some shreds of paper and we both knew straight away what it was! The trunk didn’t smell so we were pretty sure the rat 🐀 had moved on but I got the boys to carry it into the garden regardless. We started unpacking carefully and low and behold there was the rat 🐀 scampering about! At this point I stood back and let Innocent take charge! To cut a long story short, very short, the rat 🐀 didn’t move house that day!!

Innocent went in for the kill!

Quite a nice looking 🐀! Reminded me if the gerbils our daughters had when they were young!

These wonderful people then sorted and cleaned the trunk out while I sat and watched! There is quite a bit of damage to school books etc but at least Ratty left my personal things in tact!