We have very big slugs in our garden. They're a sort of dark orangey red colour.
I don't mind them too much, they're very useful in our little ecosystem.
One memory I do have though from when I was in Australia, aged 13, was when the entire house was surrounded by arthropods, millipedes and centipedes and the devil knows what else. By surrounded I mean they were all just around the edge, somehow attempting to get inside. There were so many of them that this writhing wall around the outside of the house must've been a good five or six inches high. I remember it was the smell, or stench, which was so unbearably wicked.
Now I don't know whether this memory is true or maybe it was a nightmare. I had lots of nightmares in those days. That was the only one involving arthropods, though, so maybe it was real after all...
Australia known for hosting huge bugs and weevils and etc all man eating and hidious. you probably are not exaggerating!
i dont know what it is about slugs... the seething mass of them in our compost bin... they do grind it all up and feed them frogs and thrushes that get in there too... just the slime and the destruction of allnour veggies makes me hate them
I used to muck about with slugs when I was a kid. But not like that.
I can’t wait for the next part!
I like snails... but slugs... i cant bear them.
But they have those cute little retractable eyes!
soon....sooon...
You have fans, you know! I wonder if Charles Dickens felt the pressure?!
Oh no.... they need an exorcism.
but will they get one....
Tune in next time to find out!
i am trying to get to the end....really I am...Speighthart knows, and he keeps me from it...
He likes your writing, too, then? 😉
Oh man! What an ending, and that scene with the bucket of slugs and grubs, all staying in the bucket till their time ? — excellent
there is more to come...
Oh I know, I’m excited for it. I meant ‘what an ending’ as in you’re really leaving me hanging!
We have very big slugs in our garden. They're a sort of dark orangey red colour.
I don't mind them too much, they're very useful in our little ecosystem.
One memory I do have though from when I was in Australia, aged 13, was when the entire house was surrounded by arthropods, millipedes and centipedes and the devil knows what else. By surrounded I mean they were all just around the edge, somehow attempting to get inside. There were so many of them that this writhing wall around the outside of the house must've been a good five or six inches high. I remember it was the smell, or stench, which was so unbearably wicked.
Now I don't know whether this memory is true or maybe it was a nightmare. I had lots of nightmares in those days. That was the only one involving arthropods, though, so maybe it was real after all...
Australia known for hosting huge bugs and weevils and etc all man eating and hidious. you probably are not exaggerating!
i dont know what it is about slugs... the seething mass of them in our compost bin... they do grind it all up and feed them frogs and thrushes that get in there too... just the slime and the destruction of allnour veggies makes me hate them
yah some of the millipedes really stink! we just have a LOT of slugs... black.. orange... spotty... grim