Well, well, this has become THE place to air one's pest problems. I have a troublesome neighbor I'd like to get rid of. Any suggestions?
Rambler, perhaps you should take a leaf out of my woodchuck's tactics book and climb a tree; you may get a clearer picture from above (you know, the way long-buried towns have been revealed by raking sunlight), and you might even get in a good shot with your blowgun as a bonus.
When you said that Mrs. R was going to Boston for meths I thought for a moment that she might be involved in an international drug cartel, but then I of course remembered that you've adopted many of our New England town names for your own use and figured that you can find excellent drug deals without leaving the UK. By the way, I've thought about visiting Lincolnshire, but someone recently told me that it's full of crazed-looking weapon-wielders and that the whole place smells like a pissoir.