I was sitting at my computer this afternoon working on the web site when a mouse dirt fell on my keyboard. I looked up, even though I do not believe that mice fly, but could see nothing on the ceiling. On closer examination I spotted a mouse sitting on the mesh that covers the air vent in the ceiling.
Now therein lies a challenge. I cannot take the top off the vent from outside the boat. It must be done from inside by taking the mesh off the vent hole. If I just take the mesh off the mouse will inevitably fall into the boat and run off into some corner never to be seen again until I catch it in a trap.
I ended up getting a bamboo skewer and gently lifting the mouse up until it could reach the outside of the vent and scamper off across the roof to somewhere else. Perhaps I need to assess the state of the top boxes and other items on the roof to make sure I do not have a whole colony of mice up there.

No, I am quite safe I do not have a colony of mice anywhere on the boat.
The coal that we have bveen getting seems to be variable. Some burn hotter, some create more ash and some last longer overnight, so we have decided to do our own research. When Mark on Callisto came past we purchased 6 bags of each of four different varieties of coal in order to decide on which we liked best and therefore which one to stick to.

Mark.