well the slugs around here being South London drink any kind of beer(even
Fosters) and it does not do them any good at all--but a saucer full of dead
drunk slugs is not a good way to start the day----what really
works --scares them off is reading poetry -well declaiming really gets them
I have tried my own poems with some success but some from this website have
scared them off for days on end but
they crowd around for any anglosaxon stuff quite useless.
cheers off to poetry workshop patrick
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From: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: time-muses
> At 3:24 AM -0500 5/6/03, Jill Jones wrote:
> >I am thankfully free of muses of any kind - maybe they are a northern
> >hemisphere thing - but slugs are different. We've tried the beer cure and
it
> >doesn't work, at least not in our neck of the woods. Possibly they are
wine or
> >scotch sluggers.
>
> I know for a fact they like milk, having seen them at night at the
> leavings from the cat's bowl. Amazing sight, slugs sipping milk in
> the moonlight. But I don't think it actually gets rid of them.
>
> >If a muse came anywhere near me, do you think garlic would work? Or a
silver
> >bullet?
>
> I've no idea. Perhaps cold iron over the door might work, but that
> keeps out witches, and maybe you might want them in the house...
>
> best
>
> A
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