Posts archive for: 13 February, 2006
  • What use are slugs?

    I hate the damned things! I've just spent half an hour this morning killing several dozen.

    It's not just that they eat my plants, but I also have to prevent them fron getting into the house. A couple of years ago I was infested with slugs; every morning I would discover up to half a dozen of the things in my kitchen...not just on the floor; but in the sink, on the working surfaces and even climbing up cupboards. Of course their slime trails were everywhere and although I did my best to clean them up, over a period of several months I still inadvertently ingested some of the bacteria or poisons present in the slime and became quite ill.

    Salt seems to do the trick though in killing them and keeping them at a safe distance. At the time I liberally spread it on the floor and all over the surfaces and spent at least thirty minutes every day on the front line in the garden exterminating them.

    The battle is continuing....no surrender!!!

  • Some things I've been looking at online recently

    Incidents and anecdotes associated with the use of Daylight Saving Time.

    Live webcam feeds from famous tourist locations around the world (you can even take control of some of the cameras.)

    A guide to the correct use of Catalan typography.

    The history of thermometers.

    Enclaves of the world - there are actually hundreds of them (including over a dozen enclaves within an enclave and one example of an enclave within an enclave within an enclave.)

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