GOTCHA

I baited the humane trap with their favourite cheese, put my expensive chocolates on a high shelf and went to bed secure in the certain knowledge I had won at last.




 

 

Mousy misunderstanding

 

The Linnaean term for the common house mouse is Mus musculus, the second word meaning merely (and redundantly) "little mouse". Yet mice are not renowned Latin scholars and this family has mistranslated the phrase, determined to keep up their reputation for muscularity.