"Steve Wolstenholme" wrote in message
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On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:09:24 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:

Last night I went to a neighbour's house, three doors away. When I
returned
home at 9.55 it had been raining and the pavement in front of her house
and
her neighbour's were heavily populated by snails and slugs. The pavement
in
front of the next house and ours were empty of them.

Now that IS a strange phenomenon.

Mary

We rarely get snails and slugs in our garden. We have no plants that
they eat.

Steve


The trouble is that they like to eat what we like to eat. I didn't now until
last night that they eat tops of carrots :-(

Mary