{"id":926,"date":"2019-08-06T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/?p=926"},"modified":"2020-04-14T10:55:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T10:55:17","slug":"snails-of-the-riverbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davesmith.org.uk\/imagenic\/snails-of-the-riverbank\/","title":{"rendered":"Snails of the riverbank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Remember the old children’s favourite, with Hammy the hamster and his pals, voiced by the late, great Johnny Morris? I wonder how he would have worked his animal magic on a bunch of snails? Not exactly action-packed sequences, of course, but time-lapse photography might have helped …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P.S. I am taking a bit of a liberty with the title, since these snails are not actually on a riverbank, just hanging around beside the local burn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Now imagining Johnny Morris Scottish snail voice … ) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It may be a wee burn to you, but it’s not just any burn. It’s a famous burn. It’s been in the movies. And the Man in Black himself, Johnny Cash, recorded a Christmas special in the Auld Kirk beside it!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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