Good night for saving money

[Chevin Chaser]

Saved some money last night. 1.5hrs with over 400 worms. Lots of moss collected. Should last a few weeks.

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[Rutilus]

Goodness that's super efficient work! At my age and my back I'm afraid my nightcrawler collecting days (or rather nights) are long over. Even in the good times I struggled to get 100 in a couple of hours though. At the prices charged for lobs perhaps you should start your own business

[Old Man River]

Thats a good haul CC, how will you keep them ?

I used to put all my unused collected worms onto the compost heap in the corner of the garden ( when I had a garden ) and always had a ready supply, these days I usually go out of an evening and "water" the edges of the Yorkshire Stone footpath , at the back of the house ,leave it a few hours and there are always worms poking their heads out later on.
I am a bit dubious about going out to the village verges and bowling green etc with a torch at midnight , I may get accused of things other than worm collecting

OMR

[PershoreHarrier]

CC a word of caution. I don't know where you undertake the nocturnal activity of acquiring lobs but some 50 years ago a good friend of mine ventured to Fox Hollies Park in Birmingham at 1.00am armed with a torch and bucket after a day of heavy rainfall. On his hands and knees with the torch clamped between his teeth he was recovering a substantial number of lobs for the Chub session due to commence later that day. Suddenly there was not one torch beam on the ground but two - followed by ' Ello, ello, ello, so what's going on here?' The local bobby had spotted the torch beam of the lob hunter and had come to investigate and being a non angler was not convinced by the response that my friend was collecting worms. The advice of the bobby was 'Go home and don't do this again sonny.'

[Banksy]

... I am a bit dubious about going out to the village verges and bowling green etc with a torch at midnight , I may get accused of things other than worm collecting

OMR

In my teens, I was out one night collecting lobworms on the lawns of our farmhouse, and found myself staring into the twin barrels of a 12 Bore shotgun.
A neighbour was on his way back from the pub after a lock-in, and decided to make a citizen's arrest.
The chap could hardly stand, so I very slowly surrendered and left the area.

[Chevin Chaser]

I simply added soil from the garden and a layer or two of damp moss.

Loving the bobby stories.

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