Rankings
*from the latest annual pest ranking by the Royal Horticultural Society, as reported in the UK press today. As a gardener I side with the RHS on this, although as a cartoonist I’m not so sure …
Category: Snail
Stay At Home
It seems that logic can only get you so far …
Old Long Sign
There’s still a few hours left to look the words up if you need to … 🙂
Des Res
Good defensive location for a snail maybe – but what are the chances of a wheelie bin not being used over the Christmas holidays?
Stripes
After all why not? We all know they give the illusion of speed …
Psychedelic
Think I’ll stick to eating the less colourful mushrooms sold in the local supermarket …
Curiosity
Our local horse chestnut “bombing season” is pretty much over now, but the evidence of this recent hail of conkers is still lying on the ground beneath every tree …
Sell By
Personally I love the look of the autumn leaves, but I can understand that if my favourite food was juicy green leaves then the pretty multicoloured carpet that forms at this time of year would be somewhat disappointing …
Rhubarb
Not to be confused with the cartoon Roobarb (sometimes called Roobarb and Custard) that used to air on the BBC just before the main evening news. Roobarb was clearly iconic rather than ironic! (BTW rhubarb leaves are of course poisonous to humans, whereas the internet assures me that those same leaves do no harm to […]
Bully
Slightly surprised to discover that there really are carnivorous snails, some even introduced from distant lands to control native snail populations …
