party in the peas

Live and let live I say. I don’t believe humans really own the planet, that they should have special privilege over any other species. In fact I try to tell myself often, as I’m thinking about these things, that really we're no different at all. Everything has a specialism, bats have echolocation, we just happen to have really big brains... I’m vegetarian. I don’t kill flies...

So, I don’t mind one snail having a little nibble on my plants every now and again, after all its only trying to make a living isn’t it. I'd never use chemicals to kill them (just anthropormorphise them a bit...). When I find them on my plants I just carefully move them to the other side of the garden, and that seems to work fine. Until now. I think the snails have been talking; they’ve realised they’re onto a good thing…


Yesterday morning, whilst leaving for work I noticed my pea plants looking strange. They had been almost entirely stripped of leaves and there in front of my eyes were 5 big snails munching away, finishing off the job. Normally they come at night, not anymore. Broad daylight, little circular mouths chomping away. It would have actually been really interesting to watch, the sort of thing you don’t normally get to see up close, except it was my pea plants. And now there's nothing left!


Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to get my peas from Kenya this year…