Wish you were here?

‘was the night before Christmas when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse, so the recent attentions of the lady from Rodents ‘R’ Us, culminating in treating the cellars with an essence of strychnine and Semtex, seemed to have done the trick. Now all that remains is to deal with the Asian hornets and grey squirrels in the attic and the mess of iguanas