Cornucopia
inspired by Jude's Thread Keepers , this elephant shaped puzzle piece is now my Thread Keeper, the handmade black&white thread was a gift from Jude Ever since having read Elisabeth Tova Bailey's ' The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating ' I have become even more fond of snails and, much to everyone's amazement & oftentimes horror, slugs too. I cannot quite recall how I came across this book back in 2014*, but I must have fallen in love with the title and therefore was curious as to its contents. I also heard of a remarkable discovery, on the radio if memory serves me well, made by a woman wanting to get rid of the snails in her garden, in a nature-friendly way. She collected them in a shoe box, moved them into the park across the road, only to find them back in her garden the next day. Or so she thought, she couldn't be sure, so she gave each snail a different dash of nailpolish on their shells, collected and moved them yet again. Lo and behold a day later t...
