Lay Morals and slugs

'It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. Although neither is to be despised, it is always better policy to learn an interest than to make a thousand pounds; for the money will soon be spent, or perhaps you may feel no joy in spending it; but the interest remains imperishable and ever new.'


from Lay Morals, by Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894.

Grey Granite found the above quotation on the Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland
whilst trying (unsuccessfully) to identify this interesting slug, found on the Line this morning and records it as an endorsement of the immeasurable pleasure to be derived from cultivating ones  interests. (However anorakish and futile they may seem to be to the uninitiated)

The slug has been identified by the Conchological Society

as the Great Grey or Leopard Slug (Limax maximus) and is of sufficient interest to be recorded in the national data base of slug distribution.