Two days and nights of thundery showers and warm humid weather and the food finally appeared on the old and blackened tree stump which served as a table. A gastronomic delight, a sumptuous mushroom repast and sufficient of it to please the hungriest epicurean, the most bloated gourmet, the greediest gastropod. They grazed and munched without restraint until they finally fell into the slimy swollen stillness, the sleep of satiated slugs.
Quite a relief to find out it was slugs eating that 'thing'.
ReplyDeleteThey were so fat and full from eating that they could no longer move. I personally would not want to eat that 'thing' but maybe somebody somewhere would. Who knows?
DeleteSlugs fill the sidewalk after a heavy rain, avoiding drowning in soil, I always presumed. Now I add the mental image of them sated from a repast of a mushroom "thing".
ReplyDeleteIt must the Slug equivalent of a Giant Big Mac with Fries followed by a Large Strawberry Milk Shake and a Double Portion of Gateaux with Cream. Whatever the "thing" is they can't get enough of it.
DeleteThat photograph is amazing. Could you paint The Slugs Feast Gwil? I often wonder if photographs are art in their own right. Its a brilliant photo. I found six slugs in the polytunnel this morning. I think my my constant watering makes ideal slug conditions not forgetting the cucumbers and tomatoes waiting to be at by them.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave. If I do any painting this winter I'll try and remember your suggestion The Slugs Feast (it's a great title!). I think photos are art in their own right and the trick is to be on the lookout for them. Photos are always there waiting to be taken. I know there are some artists who borrow stuffed birds and stick them on branches and fake a photograph. But these types are of the professionals. I'm only an amateur. The spider currently at the top was on a fence next to my parked car. People tell me it's known in Austria as a Death's Head Spider. I'd never seen one before that day.
DeleteIt looks good enough to eat.
ReplyDeleteUgh!
DeleteI think it looks awful!
ReplyDeleteSlugs will also eat apricots and even their dead relatives. There's no accounting for taste.
DeleteYum!
ReplyDeleteLovely photos of the mountains on your running blog, what a place to be able to go out in and enjoy. Some of the photos reminded me of Wales.
Thanks CT. And of course there are many fine places to enjoy in Wales. One of my favourites is the Gower.
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