"HC" wrote in message
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The Blueys that live in my garden poked their heads out on Sunday
for
the first time this season. They were waiting for the obligatory
bit of
chuck steak.

We used to have a bit of 4 inch aggie drainage pipe sticking out of
the ground in a previous house. In this pipe lived the fattest and
biggest Bluie I've ever seen. One day I caught my husband throwing
snails down into the pipe. When I asked him what he was doing he
looked a bit embarrassed and said he was feeding the Blue. He'd
apparently been doing it for about a year. No wonder the Bluie was so
big :-))


I haven't seen one yet. Still too cold.