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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.
After rain a large brown snail extends its body and antennae towards the carcass of a fly on the roof above our door.
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 —

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