Were you convinced as a kid that there was a 'tidying-up fairy', ready to clear away the day's mess?

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For one pensioner, it looked as if magic really did exist after he kept finding his shed miraculously tidy each morning, so he set up a hidden nighttime camera — only to stumble across a scene straight out of Disney's Cinderella.

A helpful mouse was captured tidying away items left out on a work bench, picking up nuts and bolts in its mouth before storing them in a box.

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Viewers of the footage, posted by ITV News, were quite reasonably fascinated by the mouse's Marie Kondo-style approach, with many expressing their hopes that any small animals living in their own homes would "take a lesson".

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"It's a mouse Marie Kondo," Anna Mazzola posted on Twitter.

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And the official Twitter account for the classic children's series Bagpuss also tweeted the video, accompanied by the lyrics to the Bagpuss Mice's tidying up song.

https://twitter.com/OfficialBagpuss/status/1108080220710547456

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We wonder if this mouse can sing...

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Flora CarrDrama Writer, RadioTimes.com

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