Tim and the Slater collection
This is my friend Tim.
Tim is a top bloke. We used to flat together up at “The Castle” a famous Crossroads share house that I ran for about 5 years.
Our house had several famous infestations including scorpions, slugs and slaters. Tim and I were famous for starting a collection of live slaters in a small jar in my bedroom*. Here is what one looks like.
The problem was that as the slaters died and smelt really bad. We had to throw them out. It was a sad day we were hoping to give them to our landlord to convince him that our house needed some work to stop the infestations.
Slater collection and Tim H supportMIKE salutes you.
* Disclaimer This was mostly my idea.
Tim is a top bloke. We used to flat together up at “The Castle” a famous Crossroads share house that I ran for about 5 years.
Our house had several famous infestations including scorpions, slugs and slaters. Tim and I were famous for starting a collection of live slaters in a small jar in my bedroom*. Here is what one looks like.
The problem was that as the slaters died and smelt really bad. We had to throw them out. It was a sad day we were hoping to give them to our landlord to convince him that our house needed some work to stop the infestations.
Slater collection and Tim H supportMIKE salutes you.
* Disclaimer This was mostly my idea.
posted by mike at 4:50 PM
5 Comments:
Well mike, here in the states we don't call those slaters, they are known here as Rolly-Pollies because they make themselves into little balls...It is cool to learm a new name for them though...I used to have a 'slater' collection too.
Sharehouse that you ran?
My big life plan is to one day build a house that is completely spider- and scorpion-proof. :)
(Yay, finally logged onto Blogspot!)
Anon... I'm not sure who you are but I was the one who stayed there from the begining to the end. I would say that "ran" is the right word for it. :)
I used to try and force slaters open when they would curl into a ball. I didn't like it when they did this, I thought they were being snoby. Just curling up and not letting me play with them. Then I would get angry with them and throw them miles away.
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