Butter wouldn't melt...

Looking sweet but he's a fair sized young rat and he's living in the flotsam and jetsam reed bed beside my  boat.  Each week I fill a black sack with the rubbish that I can reach that collects at the edge to stop it floating off and joining the island of rubbish the size of Wales which floats in the Pacific.  I asked for and had been promised a better fishing net. from the Harbour Office who were pleased that I was helping out, especially as it is near the Cross Harbour Ferry Stop where all the SS Great Britain visitors and thousands of tourists pass by. Ha ha.  Now I have been refused the net on health and safety grounds ...