Slugs

Compost heap nearly empty, with the improved access resulting in the second half going much faster than the first. And certainly much easier taking it out from the front, rather than from the top.

Construction continues to be a puzzle. Why weaken the thing with a concrete post at the corner? Why is there a sort of concrete sill underneath the right hand wall? The bricks are probably what are known in the trade as Dorking Reds.

Quite a lot of roots had made their way in from the back hedge.

Quite a lot of slugs to be seen on the back wall, having thought they had opted for a quiet life. Pale green, up to an inch and a half long. The telephone struggled with light contrasts this snap, but you can just about make them out if you click to enlarge.

PS:  I used to know a chap who had worked at the Dorking brick kilns, an amateur boxer who told me that the heat and fumes from the newly opened kilns did very bad things to the lungs. No idea if they are still there.

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