PESTS

Mice: Mice seem to prefer peanut butter, bacon, and nuts, and chocolate to cheese in mouse traps.

Silverfish: If you are troubled with silverfish try placing whole cloves in the closets and drawers.

Ants under your paving slabs: If you have a path made of paving slabs laid in sand and have a problem with ants making nests in the sand, try this. Mix borax with the sand in the joints. This should kill the ant colonies. Repeat as necessary by sprinkling a sand and borax mixture on the paving slabs and sweeping it into the joints with a stiff broom, using a back and forth motion.