Aaaaaaaaaaargh!

[blackberry444]

I went out into the yard a short while ago, to take the bin out.  It's pouring with rain, and the entire yard is full of slugs and snails.  They were also all over the wall.  I salted as many as possible, till I ran out of salt, but it looks as though we're being overrun.  I've never seen so many in one place before.

Yuck!  And ick!  I hates the things, I does.

At least I managed to find and order a dress I quite liked which isn't made of polyester and isn't black.  It's actually khaki, which doesn't exactly fill me with joy, but I also ordered a rather snazzy melodramatic kind of cardigan/wrap in the same colour.  I've ordered a pair of pale green suede shoes, so now I need a green hat.

We're off to Stoke on Trent tomorrow for a  CT Board strategy day.  It looks as though it may well rain all the way there, which isn't going to be much fun.

Comments

[artela.livejournal.com]

I don't salt the slugs... it's wasteful of salt and icky to clean up the mess.
Instead I use a plastic bag over the had (lite a mitten) and collect up as many slugs as you can before inverting the bag and tying a knot in the top and throwing in the bin.

[blackberry44.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I could do that. Slugs are so icky, I think they would feel all soft and bleurgh even through a plastic bag. Maybe I could get Charles to do it.