Stress!

Its looking more likely now we will have to go to court to get the money back phill is owed :( I keep hoping that the money will just come in but seems like it will take some more time. I am resisting the urge to phone up said chap and giving a piece of my mind, pisses me off Ive always done everything straight, paid my bills, paid my debts, even when they wernt mine. Then you get some people that just stream through life not caring who they step on and they just sail on by. Its not fair I tell you, really is winding me up at the moment. Why is it some people just manage to do this with a clear conscious, whilst others struggle by doing everything by the book and not getting anywhere.?

Anyway on my "trying to calm down walk" came across a load of snails, looking like they were getting frisky, so just googled the subject.....

Reproduction
Common snails, like all land snails, are hermaphrodites. This means that they possess both male and female reproductive organs. Despite this they still need to find another snail to mate with. When two snails meet during the breeding season (late spring or early summer), mating is initiated by one snail piercing the skin of the other snail with a calcified 'love dart'. The exact purpose of the 'love dart' is not fully understood but it seems to stimulate the other snail into exchanging small packets of sperm. After mating is complete the snails will produce eggs internally, which are fertilised by the sperm that has been exchanged.

Up to about a month after mating the snail lays about a hundred small white eggs in a nest underground in damp soil. If the conditions remain suitable for the eggs, snails will begin to hatch after about 14 days. Newly hatched snails have a small fragile shell and it takes two years for them to reach maturity.


You can see the photos on t'other blog, best go as phill wants me to send some emails....it never stops here! Still he is happy snooker is on..