Needed a nerve steadying pint late Saturday night....but the bar was closed.
I'll tell you why....apologies folks that this isn't football related.
Mrs Plym had by Friday finished planting out about an hundred plants in the two borders at the front of the bungalow......Saturday everything looked great and her handiwork looked quite attractive....it was a reasonably warm day and we had a downpour of rain late afternoon.
About dusk time I looked out the front window as I was about to close the venetian blinds....something didn't look right about the grass.....it looked darker than usual and seemed to be moving !
I opened the front door and couldn't believe what I saw......the warm damp atmosphere had brought out from the shrubs either side of the front garden....SNAILS....not one or two....not fifty or sixty.....but HUNDREDS.....Mrs Plym joined me at the front door and we both gazed in amazement.....it was like a marching army.....and marching towards Mrs Plym's lovely new plants that we had bought and spent a few weeks nurturing in the green house.
By now it was nearly dark.....so I found a torch and armed with Sainsbury carrier bags we started to pick them up....some had already reached the borders and looked prepared to strip bare our lovely new plants....they where our first priority.....then we moved slowly up the lawn picking them up with help from the torch to see them in the dark.....I had to get more bags and the torch was starting to dim by now....we checked the lawn again after we had finished and under the shrubs as well.....by now it was gone 11pm.....I wondered if any of the neighbours had seen us wandering around in the dark with a torch.....well none of them had called for the local nut house to come and take us away in straight jackets so that was alright....I must admit that I did check the lawn before I went to bed incase a back-up battalion of snail re-enforcments had appeared...but all seemed ok.....I kid you not we must of picked up between two and three hundred....I put the them inside a couple of more bags and knotted them tight....I then put them in a plastic box with a lid....the next day I got rid of them in a council skip.....we could of stood on them but that would have left quite a mess on the lawn....where are the birds when you need them....all tucked up for the night I expect by then.....I've developed a nervous twitch now when dusk time comes around.....bought some snail and slug pellets yesterday.
I'll still have that pint please if I may.
I'll tell you why....apologies folks that this isn't football related.
Mrs Plym had by Friday finished planting out about an hundred plants in the two borders at the front of the bungalow......Saturday everything looked great and her handiwork looked quite attractive....it was a reasonably warm day and we had a downpour of rain late afternoon.
About dusk time I looked out the front window as I was about to close the venetian blinds....something didn't look right about the grass.....it looked darker than usual and seemed to be moving !
I opened the front door and couldn't believe what I saw......the warm damp atmosphere had brought out from the shrubs either side of the front garden....SNAILS....not one or two....not fifty or sixty.....but HUNDREDS.....Mrs Plym joined me at the front door and we both gazed in amazement.....it was like a marching army.....and marching towards Mrs Plym's lovely new plants that we had bought and spent a few weeks nurturing in the green house.
By now it was nearly dark.....so I found a torch and armed with Sainsbury carrier bags we started to pick them up....some had already reached the borders and looked prepared to strip bare our lovely new plants....they where our first priority.....then we moved slowly up the lawn picking them up with help from the torch to see them in the dark.....I had to get more bags and the torch was starting to dim by now....we checked the lawn again after we had finished and under the shrubs as well.....by now it was gone 11pm.....I wondered if any of the neighbours had seen us wandering around in the dark with a torch.....well none of them had called for the local nut house to come and take us away in straight jackets so that was alright....I must admit that I did check the lawn before I went to bed incase a back-up battalion of snail re-enforcments had appeared...but all seemed ok.....I kid you not we must of picked up between two and three hundred....I put the them inside a couple of more bags and knotted them tight....I then put them in a plastic box with a lid....the next day I got rid of them in a council skip.....we could of stood on them but that would have left quite a mess on the lawn....where are the birds when you need them....all tucked up for the night I expect by then.....I've developed a nervous twitch now when dusk time comes around.....bought some snail and slug pellets yesterday.
I'll still have that pint please if I may.
