2021 - What I did today

After planting out, last week, next door's selection of plants they ordered (I wasn't impressed with the quality of plants) one very small poppy plant was getting eaten by slugs. I mentioned it to Mrs who didn't seem too bothered and wasn't keen to kill/deter any slugs, her take on it was 'its all nature and even slugs need to eat". I kept my peace but warned that their new baby plants may be at risk, wondering how in 60 years of gardening a third of an acre she had ever managed to create anything productive/appealing. I like nature but rats/mice and slugs are on my hit list. I found at least 20 big fat slimy slugs in the top of our compost bin lid which normally I would have left be, but they went on a flying holiday to the top of next door's left to wild part of their land, a good 90m from any cultivated patch. Should we have a guilty secret thread? only joking, I might feel the need to confess, not a good idea.