http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: Heroic snail work - Recent Posts en Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:07:45 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209&page=2#post-294157 Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:02:01 +0000 sallyhinch 294157@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Okay, will do. PM me an email address </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209&page=2#post-294156 Thu, 25 Oct 2018 13:55:12 +0000 Sheeptoucher 294156@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That would be absolutely brilliant!!!!!</p> <p>A brief description of the habitat or garden and a rough location would be ace as well. Thank you so much!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209&page=2#post-294154 Thu, 25 Oct 2018 13:49:30 +0000 sallyhinch 294154@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>OK, to return to the topic for once, I am currently in the process of digging out a bit of the garden with a population of stripey snails. Would it be of any use if I photographed them as clearly as I could &amp; sent them to you @Sheeptoucher? Would you need any other information like what habitat they are in? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209&page=2#post-294045 Tue, 23 Oct 2018 22:15:27 +0000 I were right about that saddle 294045@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo</p> <p>You know my rules. No shooting at the inedible. No way I'd have popped a cap in its Malpighian tubules. My host wouldn't have stood for it and there were no cartridges in the house any road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209&page=2#post-294038 Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:52:04 +0000 unhurt 294038@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You need a spoonful. Stir fried or tempura style. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209&page=2#post-294022 Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:35:06 +0000 gembo 294022@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not much eating in a hornet surely.? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-294012 Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:20:21 +0000 I were right about that saddle 294012@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Big wasps? First time a hornet flew through a window into a room I was in I was in a house that contained a shotgun and my mind automatically summoned its location and image.</p> <p>Those mothers are juicy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-294000 Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:06:55 +0000 gembo 294000@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@unhurt, this is anti-wasp propaganda. Many types of bees can sting you and not die and some types of wasps do die when tey sting you.</p> <p>also Clegs are worse than wasps. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293997 Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:03:06 +0000 unhurt 293997@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>the big wasp survey</em> - as I imagine it, this goes:</p> <p>1) Are you a wasp? Y / N / prefer not to say</p> <p>2) Do you like jam? Y / N / prefer not to say</p> <p>3) Do you enjoy stinging humans for no readily apparent reason?<br /> Y / N / prefer not to say</p> <p>4) Do you insist upon trying to drown yourself in @unhurt's al fresco glass of wine?<br /> Y / N / prefer not to say</p> <p>5) If you answered Y to (4) KINDLY JUSTIFY YOUR ACTIONS BELOW</p> <p>6) Please stop trying to hibernate in my living room curtains. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293967 Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:19:49 +0000 sallyhinch 293967@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Haha! Nothing so subversive - I took part in the big wasp survey again this year.</p> <p>If you don't have a handy goat, the Weather Gods can be appeased by a regular whisky libation </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293966 Tue, 23 Oct 2018 07:10:49 +0000 gembo 293966@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I thought the wasps and insects were sent to David Cameron as a protest against his idiotic idea of letting the people vote </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293965 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:28:05 +0000 Frenchy 293965@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>You have to keep them sweet with little presents all year round.</em></p> <p>Christmas is sorted. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293964 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:16:51 +0000 unhurt 293964@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You have to keep them sweet with little presents all year round.</p> <p>This has me thinking though - perhaps this sort of thing explains where all the snails have gone? @sheeptoucher, maybe check for a sinister snail sacrifice cult operating in Balerno area. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293963 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:14:19 +0000 Frenchy 293963@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The PoP weather gods are appeased by dead wasps and assorted insects? Or is the idea to tire them out in autumn soo that they don't cause trouble in April? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293962 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:07:40 +0000 unhurt 293962@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When she hasn't time to do the ceremony with the goat she just posts smaller sacrifices direct to the PoP Weather Gods. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293961 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 22:57:00 +0000 Frenchy 293961@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You don't get to write sentences like "I've already sent a packet of dead wasps and assorted insects somewhere by post this year..." without further explanation. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293958 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:21:52 +0000 gembo 293958@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@sallyhinch, even if you were using snail mail? (@frenchy yes obvious) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293956 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 18:52:14 +0000 sallyhinch 293956@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I did actually put them to one side (normally snails found in my garden get flying lessons into the field) but when I came back later two of them had legged it, possibly rounded up by IWRATS on his snail drove. I've already sent a packet of dead wasps and assorted insects somewhere by post this year, but now that they ask you what's inside, I'd be a bit reluctant to post snails </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293955 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 18:34:25 +0000 Frenchy 293955@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>@sallyhinch, post them?</em></p> <p>Punchline's too obvious. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293953 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 18:16:35 +0000 gembo 293953@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@sallyhinch, post them? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293950 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 17:24:22 +0000 unhurt 293950@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This has led me into molluscian reflections and hence to a rather nice prose poem from Francis Ponge:<br /> <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/89712/snails">(There is more to be said about snails. First of all their immaculate clamminess. Their sangfroid. Their stretchiness.)</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293946 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 16:57:39 +0000 sallyhinch 293946@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Encountered 3 in my garden just this afternoon, but Dumfries &amp; Galloway is probably a bit far to come </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293945 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 16:55:36 +0000 Sheeptoucher 293945@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>They can be dead but fresh.</p> <p>Tippex, hmm. They do not check the snails but this forum could come back to haunt me just before I get my Nobel prize for Snails in 20 years time...</p> <p>Thanks to everyone who has looked for the snails!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293932 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 13:39:29 +0000 Darkerside 293932@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hypothetically speaking, is the stripe inspection process sufficiently rigorous to detect, say, tippex?</p> <p>If not, I'm prepared to undercut both the chancers above and provide bulk amounts of the little blighters at the bargain price of £1 per five. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293923 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 12:37:54 +0000 Arellcat 293923@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Do they need to be living? I had a hedgehog in my garden a little while back, and there were lots of crunching sounds when it disappeared into <strike>the local jungle</strike> my flowerbed.</p> <p>I did have a huge collection of snails living in my garage but I may have evicted them. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293917 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 11:38:24 +0000 paulmilne 293917@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll check under the flowers hanging down the side of my raised beds - that's usually where the snails hang out - and report back tonight/tomorrow.</p> <p>If I remember, that is ... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293906 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 09:20:02 +0000 wingpig 293906@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sorry - no snails on the Snail Wall. Not alive ones, anyway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293905 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 07:59:30 +0000 I were right about that saddle 293905@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm going to organise a snail drove. Stance the snails every five metres. Be with you in a decade.</p> <p>Need to check if the law still allows me to carry a brace of pistols while droving. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293904 Mon, 22 Oct 2018 07:46:57 +0000 wingpig 293904@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll have a look at the wall between Craigentinny golf course and Fleming Place. Used to be loads there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19209#post-293902 Sun, 21 Oct 2018 22:35:24 +0000 I were right about that saddle 293902@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>These snails will be fair trade. I'll take 24p, the mollusc must have its cut. I'll load the trailer tomorrow. Riches beckon. </p>