In my last house, in Hackney, we had a mouse problem, for most of the year. There were droppings everywhere, and if you stayed up late you could see the little bastards scurrying around out of the corner of your eye. And no matter how hard you are, how rational you are, or how used [...]

There’s a strange problem in my flat which has been bugging me for a while. Every now and then I wake up in the middle of the night because I can hear strange scratching sounds coming from the ceiling. It sounds as if someone is dragging a set of keys along the floorboards above, or [...]