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.
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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