You lot are mad :-). I only realised I had held one, after many beers one evening, and my sister sent me a video to prove it. I didn't believe her until then. Spiders are evil... it took me two weeks to even step in her house when she got the first one.
I found a baby pipistrelle on the water butt once but usually only glimpse them at dusk
Used to have a lot of rats around the barns but since Shady arrived 2 years ago, rarely see one