I woke up to find three mice in my humane trap. I daren't name the distant park where I released them

A small success at last in my battle to hold back the tide of mice flooding my kitchen for months, crapping and snacking, even though, I promise you, every surface is immaculately cleaned night and day, and not the weeniest crumb of food left anywhere, ever, except in the humane trap, which has been packed with chocolate cake, peanut butter and cheese for ages, but ignored – until last Tuesday, when guess what? I wake up and find three mice all in it together. Three!

I've got candle wax all over a cotton runner – how can I shift it?

We're all living longer, but we're forgetting how to enjoy old age. Get off that jet ski, sit back and have a biscuit

The news last week that nearly a fifth of us are likely to live to see our 100th birthday has reduced Shakespeare's famous calculation that there are seven ages of Man to the same status as the four elements or the nine circles of hell.

We've put it in the wrong spot. Can we move it?

We planted a Robinia pseudoacacia 'Frisia' three years ago. It's doing too well, spreading its branches and covering other plants (we've put it in the wrong spot, to be honest). What is the best way and time to move it?It isn't going to be happy. Robinias resent disturbance, and you may get some trouble with the roots "suckering": that is, the stress of the disturbance causes them to throw up shoots all along their length.
But it's been only a few years and this is the best time – when the tree is dormant and all the leaves have dropped – so you may get away with it. Water deeply the night before. Decide where it's going and dig the hole first. Dig a trench all the way around the "drip line" (ie, below the farthest reach of the branches) and then under, the idea being to take as much root as possible. Plant and water deeply, and water well for the next year.