Not exactly Alfred, Lord Tennyson

With apologies to Rose Bonne and Alan Mills who wrote the original lyrics and music.

We have an old snail that swallowed a fly.

I don't know why she swallowed the fly.

Perhaps she'll die.

The slow motion version of life and death

Rain fell on Spike Deane's garden in Canberra today.

A snail we thought might be dead woke up from its resting place above the front door then began to eat a probably dead fly (which is certainly dead now).

Not quite "nature red in tooth and claw" (as Alfred, Lord Tennyson* described the cycle of life...) but that fly is definitely an ex-parrot.

(This interlude has been brought to you by Nature Documentaries For Which David Attenborough Declined To Do The Voiceover)

* Taken from Canto LVI of 'In Memoriam A.H.H.' (1850) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Who trusted God was love indeed

And love Creation's final law —

Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw

With ravine, shriek'd against his creed —