the boring thead, class not an issue

[Blandmum]

I need to cut my lawn. Do you think I'll need to do it again before the winter?

Oh, now that's a nice photo Rustybear.

would that be the famous geneticist who is interested in snails???

If so, be off this thread for being far too interesting!

So sweet rb its posing

ohhh what a big one rusty!

I brought a radiator key from Robert Dyas this afternoon...need to increase the pressure in my radiators sometime this week...I think that may be a little bit too exciting to classify as dull though.
Just thought I'd mention it.

Oh, Microplanes are wonderful.
Can take the skin off your knuckles though if you don't concentate. take up less room in the drawer than round and round graters. And round and round graters have the disadvantage that you always end up with a curved leftover bit that can't be pressed down far enough to grate.

Look, I'm only giving my opinion, but if you're going to snore like that you'll miss the fact that i cleaned out the rabbits today. And made stewed apples with windfalls from the neighbours tree. Well, not quite windfalls, I stood on the outside table and reached over the fence with DS's fishing net and got a few like that. Scrumping, I suppose.

Err yes, that one, sorry mb, I will try harder.

A radiator key you say? Gosh.

Rustybear , fan-bloody-tastic. I heart your dull pondering snail.

Probably shouldn't really do this link then to juxtapose snails and kitchen equipment.

Haven't seen The Wicker Man. Does it have people walking around and around? If so, yes.

I had 'a bit of a dream' about Michael Palin recently.

That wasn't boring....

LOL at the tiny thermal sensors though!

That seamless linking of snails and litchen tools was worthy of Blue Peter, Slubber.

I went to B and Q today and bought a box of tools

The tiny thermal sensors were a total PITA. We had to cut them off strips without accidentally holding them and increasing the apparent temperature and then to find that the bloody snails had just shrugged them all off...

Thanks for the reassurance Blu, I feel better now.

Sorry Bubble, can't find an appropriate picture.

YOu snail experts is it true then that they have a v strong homing instinct?

I'd have thought they never get far enough from home to need one.

I have just exposed my slender grasp of zoology by talking about snails shrugging things off, so I wouldn't trust a word I said about their homing instinct.

If so, then this snail must regard the middle of my garden table as home - it's been back there about three times today...

Mine do.I take them off in a bucket in the car and tip them into fields. (Not fly tipping so not illegal) (snail tipping ha ha ha)

But there are always just as many in the garden. hence chi squared test with pink nail varnish.

snort at MI

Brace yourself dullards. Its only the Slipper Snail

Below is some info on said creature, it's racy stuff. You've all been warned.

LONGEST DAISY CHAIN
The holder of this dubious record is the American slipper snail (Crepidula fornicata?the scientific name alone should clue you in on their kinky predilections). All slipper snails begin life 100% male. The chain begins when a young snail reaches sexual maturity, becomes stricken with ennui, and attaches itself permanently to some fixed object. At the same time it undergoes a complete identity crises and becomes female. Shortly afterward, another male snail comes along, then mounts and copulates with the first one. It, too, abandons the motile life and remains in permanent copulatory union with the first one for the remainder of their lives. A third snail then comes along and mounts this second snail, which in turn becomes female. This procedure continues until there are up to fourteen individuals in the perpendicular chain.

Was the slipper snail orgy too much? Did I kill off the dullness with the rampant molluscs?

I apologise.

It was all too much for me, so interesting I fainted dead away.

I might put the kettle on

yawn erm all ears...