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I know that a few of you have smoking shacks so I thought I would recount this little cautionary tale for you and for those of you who might be considering it.
My Cybershed doubles as an office and smokeden. As it's basically a workshop on the back of the garage and in a wooden shed stylee it can get a little damp so in the winter I keep a small oil filled radiator on a low heat to keep my papers dry.
I use it a little less in the winter because, despite lining and insulating it the place is not as warm as the house but I will pop out for a cigar when it reaches a nice temperature.
Many of us have remarked about how great it is to walk into our smokeshacks to the smell of cigars (so rare these days) and I love it too but I have smoked less in there recently, mainly because I have been getting my stogies in town with the boys as the weather has warmed up.
As the smell of cigars has dissipated another odour has revealed itself and it wasn't pleasant.
So After a hectic few days I decided that a major spring clean was in order.
What I found was that a colony of field mice had taken up residence in a drawer. Shredded the contents to make a nice warm bed (quite near the heater, they aren't dumb!). Done their business all over the inside of the drawer and they proceeded to shuffle of this mortal coil without having the decency to take them selves out into the snow like good Englishmen do.
The result was an ungodly honk emanating from the drawer.
A man with rubber gloves on is not a pretty site but it's done now and today I intend to smoke off a good big one in there to get rid of the disgusting smell of cleaning fluid.
You have been warned.
My Cybershed doubles as an office and smokeden. As it's basically a workshop on the back of the garage and in a wooden shed stylee it can get a little damp so in the winter I keep a small oil filled radiator on a low heat to keep my papers dry.
I use it a little less in the winter because, despite lining and insulating it the place is not as warm as the house but I will pop out for a cigar when it reaches a nice temperature.
Many of us have remarked about how great it is to walk into our smokeshacks to the smell of cigars (so rare these days) and I love it too but I have smoked less in there recently, mainly because I have been getting my stogies in town with the boys as the weather has warmed up.
As the smell of cigars has dissipated another odour has revealed itself and it wasn't pleasant.
So After a hectic few days I decided that a major spring clean was in order.
What I found was that a colony of field mice had taken up residence in a drawer. Shredded the contents to make a nice warm bed (quite near the heater, they aren't dumb!). Done their business all over the inside of the drawer and they proceeded to shuffle of this mortal coil without having the decency to take them selves out into the snow like good Englishmen do.
The result was an ungodly honk emanating from the drawer.
A man with rubber gloves on is not a pretty site but it's done now and today I intend to smoke off a good big one in there to get rid of the disgusting smell of cleaning fluid.
You have been warned.
"Come in here, dear Boy, have a cigar" ....Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) 
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