Busy time all round with the Bank Holiday and all. A couple of updates but I’ll begin with part one, an amusing Snail tale….

I used to be very good at throwing but I realised it wasn’t really my strong point when, slightly enraged, I accidentally relocated the first snail I found on the Cultivation Station the other week to the neighbours garden. I confess that in my quick thinking I forgot to take a picture to show you all, so this where this blog post is going to get amusing.

Once I realised I did in fact need photos to put on this blog I decided to find another snail and just remake the scene, but I couldn’t find a single one. I looked everywhere, behind bushes, under leaves, near the fences and in every conceivable nook and cranny I could find. But there wasn’t a single one to be found.

So I next enlisted help and was told quite categorically ‘no’. Anyway Rich finally came around to the idea and it was a good job he did as he found one in the front garden.

Never in all my life had I ever been so happy to see a snail. I really have to wonder what the neighbours must think…. ‘weirdo’s is all that springs to mind at the moment.

So I put the snail back on the Cultivation Station where I had found the original and it seemed a bit sleepy or dead, I wasn’t sure which at the time so we decided to go for a quick walk and see if we could find anymore. We could only find slugs, slugs and more slugs but no snails. By the time we had got back to the garden, Mr/Mrs Snail had woken up and was well on their way to yummy scrummy plant delicacies , and I have to say they are actually quick movers.

As it happened this snail quite liked the look of the potato plant, and me being slightly amused that it wanted to eat the most random thing in our raised bed, I couldn’t help but leave it a bit longer and take more photos. Rich on the other hand is quite partial to his potato plant so it wasn’t much longer after we noticed holes appearing where the snail had been that he insisted we remove it and call it a night.

Things we do for photography! Probably just me…enjoy the photos.