Walking back to Happiness

Lovely Violetsniffthink hollyhocks are wonderful, but so do the slugs in my garden and have never managed to grow them. Thanks for sharing xxx

Very little walking today, but lots and lots of standing, chasing around also after two lovely veteran Bombe Operators, one who needed a little more ‘looking after’ than the other. 

It was an interesting but really hectic day, I managed to get to the loo just twice in 9 hours! So the Bombe’s new gallery has now been officially launched, and BBC Anglia were there to film too.

Hugs xxx

Well done Moomy xxx

Violetsniff - you know, I still can't get use to your new name hahaha.

I have to laugh, we bought 2 lupins plants, I was saying how tall they grow and how lovely they are.

We planted them in separate places and waited, it looked like they like where they had been planted.... then a week or so later the one was gone, well I say gone, the leaf had like a skeletal remain, just the main veins, the rest was gone, eaten :(

Best of all, it was only seeing this post and you saying about your (owwww) Hollyhocks - that it was Hollyhocks that I was on about, haha

 - the slugs love lupins too.

Lovely photo xxx

It’s either slugs or snails which seem to suddenly like Aquilegia in our garden too, they are all skeletons now! Will have to put slug pellets out....

Hugs xxx

Hi all

I don't have a garden - just a tiny balcony on which I try to grow various things very unsuccessfully! I thought I'd share a different perspective on the slug/pests problem. My daughter has always been a gentle soul - when she inevitably had head lice as a child, I used to comb them from her hair while she sat there in tears because I was killing them, and then we had to bury them and say a few words!!!!

Anyway, being a couple of floors up, I don't get slugs and snails, but I once had a lovely display of geraniums which caterpillars turned to twigs in a day - I was furious and my daughter caught me flinging them all on to the ground below. After she called me a murderer, I tried to explain to her why I was doing it. Afterwards, her reply was - "but it's their food, you only want them to look at - why can't you share them?" It floored me and I didn't have a reply. Her simplistic solution was to just plant more of them, then we could all have some. 

I know it doesn't work that way, but it did make me look at them less as "pests" and more as things I can try to co-exist with. My solution was to never grow geraniums again - not sure that's helping the caterpillars much :)

I've been nursing a nasty cold these last few days so no exercise - I'm off to the park again in a bit to try a little walk. The 6 cygnets are now only 3 :(   Hoping some of them make it to adulthood!!!

Have a good day everyone!

R

Ahhh,ronstar....what a gentle soul your daughter is!!

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Owww ronstar, how lovely.  I have a problem with any animal, insect, wildlife been killed - really does bother me. 

Your daughter is right, it is their food - they don't know any different, just that wow look at this lovely food we can fill up on, before we got to sleep and start our new life as a butterfly.  I'm sure they would of thanked you haha - maybe, its time to start growing them again :)

Now then 'slugs' - we had slugs in our garden last year and (now this is where you might want to go and read a different thread hahaha).. I can't think how it happened, somehow I had dropped a very small bit of bread near the slug, I hadn't noticed and went on about my business (I may of been watering the grass), when I came back the slug was there 'eating' the bread, well I was mesmorised by this, that I actually video'd him.  I could see his little tenticals up in the air, I couldn't see his mouth, just the bread disappearing!!! Well I never, it was interesting to watch.... 

So the next night I fed him again hahaha - I was telling my Mum about this over the phone, mums reply.... you should do what I do, any slugs or snails I find (laughing now, hope none of you live next door to my mum)..... and slugs or snails I find, I throw them over the fence into next doors garden :o

Its lovely how we all have our different ways.

So sorry to hear that the cygnets are down to 3, this is very sad :(

Happy Sunday everyone xxxx 

Hi moomy, I am laughing at your thread, if you read what I've just posted hahahah xxxx

Sounds a really interesting place moomy and obviously keeping you busy at the official launch ...but only 2 loo breaks !! Pleased you got through the day xx