I know now how tap dancing was first found out! It is all about moles! To my thinking, way back, somebody's garden was as riddled with moles as mine is at the moment! Every morning nowadays I walk up and down inbetween the veggie and onion beds, as well as my flowers, shrubs and young trees to flatten the creeper moles's little tunnels that criss cross all over the place, leaving the poor vegetables with no soil around their roots.
So, to the amazement of the village folk, who stand gaping at me as if I was some strange animal or some such, I do the mole dance. Every morning of my life! This is done as follows: resting your weight on one foot, the other one's toes are used to flatten the little tunnel, then you go over to the heel, and this is used to trample down the soil good and solid! So I call it the mole dance, as it is, toe, heel, step- toe, heel step, until the end of the tunnel, where a neat turn is made on the stepping foot, before starting off down the row again, this time doing your wee dance the other way round! So that is why I think that long ago, another irate gardener, good and solidly tired of moles ruining his crops, did the same kind of thing, and ho there, tap dancing was born!
It is really a problem, and so far I had not murdered one of the critters with the chappies bubblegum, but had not yet started to dispair! It is early days yet!
One thing that is a tiny bit in the moles's favour, is the fact that as they move into some really hard clay soil, it doesn't take long before they have worked it into a soft and useful piece. If only they were not so destructive, one could use them to plough your land! Lol!!! But really, they could be beneficial. Another thing that struck me about the moles, is the fact that where they are at their busiest, a large number of earth worms are concentrated. I know that they eat earth worms, but now I have started to think that maybe they kind of culture the worms for their cullinary pleasures, as the worms just get more and more, instead of their numbers falling, and this is always just where there is a large concentration of moles1
Jan is still intent of moving, and his house is getting emptier every week, as he packs the car to full capacity with boxes, and some of the smaller furniture pieces. And every time they drive out of the gate, I get a little sadder, as I knew that it wasn't long now before they would be gone forever.

 Erna is such a nice person, and the kids just adore her, and she also have one child, a girl of five, who is a lovely little thing! At least we now have a little girlie also!