That's perfectly normal Nic (having feelings of annoyance)... I'm certain we've all wanted to scream at times as we haul our bubs away from the garbage bin for the sixth time in as many minutes! (And if there's a June Bub who hasn't discovered their bins yet then they aren't far off it! LOL) My theory is that kids are psychic. Place them in a room and they will head straight for the items that you most desperately don't want them to touch. I would like to conduct an experiment: in an empty room I would like to place 2 items only: a wizz bang rainbow coloured toy and a precious but boring-looking item. Bets on are that the baby will read my mind and head straight for the precious but boring looking item. Example: in our bedroom there are many seemingly attractive items for a baby to touch. Does Niall head for those? No. Every time he crawls in there he aims for a boring but precious item like a small newspaper clipping salvaged from my childhood... he will choose to eat this as opposed to exploring the colourful pile of sequined dress-ups (clothing) that lies beside the rocking chair. Why does this happen? Because at some stage it has entered my mind that the precious newspaper clipping is actually within his reach and he read my mind. Why didn't I simply remove it? Because i stupidly assumed that he wouldn't find it to be of interest and so I turned my back and made the bed. Wrong! A child will find something to be of interest to the exact degree that it is precious and fragile. If it is not precious and fragile and/or infact dangerous it will not hold appeal. This I know to be true.

ETA: Oh and there's nothing on at the Mercy that I know of... i just thought that if you were down my way you might want to pop in for a cuppa?