Mystery 'slime'on chopping boards

When I threw away a Basil plant from a supermarket that had been on our window sill, I took it out of the pot, in the soil at the bottom were 2 slugs.
Yuk , yuk, no more herbs in the kitchen!

Did you know Dulux have a colour called snail trail. It's a nice pale grey. But decided to go with frosted steel.

I can understand that Whiff whoever thought that was a good name for a colour

We had a terrible problem with slugs in the kitchen. Apart from slug trails in the morning there was no sign of them, but if I came down during the night there were often a few crawling around. They were disgusting! Very pale and ghostly looking., Fortunately for us we were having a lot of building work being done in the kitchen, including new units. Stripping out the old ones and replastering allnthe walls, seems to have solved the problem. But that is a slightly extreme solution.

We used to live in a 300+ year old farmhouse.
Friends were due to come up from London once for Sunday lunch and I was horrified to fling open the sitting room door (tidied the night before and no children allowed in ) to find slug trails cross crossing the dark brown carpet.
Not the best advertisement for the joys of country living.

Bumping this up as it appears to have suffered the usual fate of threads I contribute to - killed stone dead!

Do you own a cat or dog? I've found my cat carry them in on his under belly ? (he's a big ginger Tom cat and as you've probably all guessed his belly is rather low to the ground ????)..... Slugs make me feel sick. Can't bear the blighters ?