I noticed the other day that the solstice stone near the bottom of the back garden had some kind of a small burrow underneath it. Probably something with four feet, but probably something smaller than a rat. Maybe these two chunks of brick will do the trick - the brick, as it happens, which fell apart during a brick walk - prompting the action noticed, for example, at reference 3.
Except that is not the first time, investigation revealing that I had clearly been doing something with cement at some point after the long-ago events noticed at references 1 and 2.
Oddly enough, we are quite close to a solstice again. Are our four footed friends sensitive to such matters too?
PS 1: I notice that there has been a lot of weathering in the ten years or so since the solstice stone was cast. Maybe there was something wrong with the mix. Maybe I did not wash the bucket used as a cast very carefully.
PS 2: the following morning (Sunday): half bricks pushed aside and burrow freshly dug out. And I now know that the stone is anointed with warm cooking fat from time to time, perhaps accounting for vulpine interest. Bricks returned to store. Watch and wait. Maybe cement action will be called for.
Reference 2: https://psmv2.blogspot.com/2013/06/solstice-stone.html.
Reference 3: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/01/fourth-brick.html.
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