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Originally Posted by ruth1304
I love corn on the cob but have found that my garden is a slug heaven. I was given a bbq 2 years ago but I have never had a chance to use it properly because of uk weather. I can't wait for the day that I can get home without treading on a snail. I hate that noise. Really upsets me, even though I can't see the snails.
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We don't have many slugs, but we do have snails galore. Still - they never got a chance to attack the corn (or the beans) - the mice got there first. I had a grand harvest of three borlotti beans that year
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I love the days in my uni admissions job that I can help someone who wants to become a midwife or nurse. Really frustrates me when I have to tell people that their work experience doesn't count for as much as work experience. People who have done the job are much more interesting than those who have just spent time in universities, but we can't consider that on applications. I think everyone should do work experience before uni and uni should help with work experience. I loved literature, but all I want to do is write, and I don't want to force people to read my writing. Education and what you get paid for are 2 separate things. I have no confidence in my writing, and it's hard to get that without government support.
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Urgh. The education system. I could rant on quite a lot about that.
As for your writing - write stuff and post it here (well, not here in this thread, create a new one in Writer's Corner)
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Sorry, random reply that had nothing to do with the original comment.
The thing I love about MR is that I can say what I think. Thank you for putting up with me.  |
Nothing to put up with
(And that's one of the things I love about MR, too)
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Originally Posted by Dylrob
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The ones in my house must be adapted to eating basically nothing. OK - they eat each other very, very, very occasionally; and one ate a clothes moth once. But otherwise they hang around in corners and crevices where nothing else goes. Having just googled them to find out if they were indoor or outdoor spiders, I cam across this little gem:
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Most toilets and cellars of our homes are inhabited by one of the most elusive hunters in the animal kingdom. It is the 'daddy-long-legs spider', Pholcus phalangioides
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Bold and italics mine. Elusive? We get loads in the house, and just about every public toilet I've ever been in has had at least one per cubicle, if not more.