Welsh Tidy Mouse Cleans Up Workshop Every Night

Rodney Holbrook of Builth Wells in Wales has a work bench in his shed where he often leaves a project out at night, intending to take up where he left off the next day. But when he returns to it, he finds that the bits and pieces he left out are mysteriously put back where they belong! This happened almost every night for two months. Did he have a brownie living in his shed? Holbrook got a clue when he found birdseed stashed in a shoe, and set up a camera to find out who was tidying up at night. It was a mouse!

The mouse cleaned up the bench by stashing all stray objects into a wooden tray. Holbrook began leaving out larger objects to catch the mouse's limitations, but the rodent diligently cleared the bench every night. Holbrook never bothers to clean up the bench anymore, as he knows the mouse will see to it. Read more about the tidy mouse at the Guardian. -via Metafilter