http://www.emmashouseinportugal.com/living-in-portugal/lived-the-life/ a blog about buying a ruin and building a house in Portugal plus food, architecture, design, travel and animals. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:17:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.emmashouseinportugal.com/living-in-portugal/lived-the-life/comment-page-1/#comment-843 Clive Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:02:21 +0000 http://www.emmashouseinportugal.com/?p=268#comment-843 Thanks for blogging this Emma. We work on the land for a fair bit of time and although we don't have many dreaded aggressive moles we do have plenty of rodents and snakes. In future I'll be a little more cautious. Our dog has had a couple of snake bites in the last six years and it is a pain and a worry (and expensive at the vet's). This down-side of the rural life is minor compared to the fun and pleasure that we have living here, though. Rodents - apparently there is one which has migrated into this region (Lousa / Poiares) and loves veg gardens. My friend was reading in his garden one day and watched in disbelief as a cauliflower plant wobbled then sank into the earth and vanished! The (Spanish, they say) vole-like subterranean critter had made a hole and dragged it in. This pest stayed for dinner for two weeks until the locals got rid of it for him with a trap. They burrow all over the place and in my orchard completely ate the roots of a four-year old fruit tree. Now when I'm irrigating I poke the hose into their burrows for a few minutes and this seems to keep them at bay - I hope they move on to drier homes! I'm sure your walls look great now :-) Thanks for blogging this Emma. We work on the land for a fair bit of time and although we don’t have many dreaded aggressive moles we do have plenty of rodents and snakes. In future I’ll be a little more cautious. Our dog has had a couple of snake bites in the last six years and it is a pain and a worry (and expensive at the vet’s). This down-side of the rural life is minor compared to the fun and pleasure that we have living here, though.
Rodents – apparently there is one which has migrated into this region (Lousa / Poiares) and loves veg gardens. My friend was reading in his garden one day and watched in disbelief as a cauliflower plant wobbled then sank into the earth and vanished! The (Spanish, they say) vole-like subterranean critter had made a hole and dragged it in. This pest stayed for dinner for two weeks until the locals got rid of it for him with a trap. They burrow all over the place and in my orchard completely ate the roots of a four-year old fruit tree. Now when I’m irrigating I poke the hose into their burrows for a few minutes and this seems to keep them at bay – I hope they move on to drier homes!
I’m sure your walls look great now

]]> http://www.emmashouseinportugal.com/living-in-portugal/lived-the-life/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Emma Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:23:37 +0000 http://www.emmashouseinportugal.com/?p=268#comment-35 he he he he; yeah, forget australia for dangerous animals, it's the portuguese baby moles you have to watch. He was so cute too, those funny little feet and that pointy little nose... little bastard. My finger still hurts after two months. he he he he; yeah, forget australia for dangerous animals, it’s the portuguese baby moles you have to watch. He was so cute too, those funny little feet and that pointy little nose… little bastard. My finger still hurts after two months.

]]> http://www.emmashouseinportugal.com/living-in-portugal/lived-the-life/comment-page-1/#comment-28 tessa Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:15:58 +0000 http://www.emmashouseinportugal.com/?p=268#comment-28 Well if it came down to xraying your finger or your chest - lets be honest - you have a great chest. Hidouesness - so it was a wild mole - the terror of Portugal? Well if it came down to xraying your finger or your chest – lets be honest – you have a great chest. Hidouesness – so it was a wild mole – the terror of Portugal?

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