Greek Mythology in Daily Life

Medusa:
The problem which, when we turn our mind to it, paralyses us.

Scylla and Charybdis:
Having to navigate between two people / demands so that neither claims our whole attention or destroys us.

Siren:
Those things that lure us away from that which we should be doing. They come in all manners of guises - most often in the little voice that says, "Why not?"

Hydra:
Every question, once answered, begets two more questions.

Nothing like the smell of an autodafé in the evening

I knew that my mum sort of dislikes slugs, especially since the little pests eat flowers faster than we can plant them. Except for the pink ones, which they find as appealing as I do, which is not at all.
Some of those molluscs get devoured by the hedgehogs and birds in our garden, of course, but there seems to be an endless supply of slugs. Good for the hedgehogs, bad for the plants.
Anyway, I wasn't aware just how much mum hates those slimy gastropods until tonight, when she picked up six of them in an old newspaper, threw them in a bin and set them on fire.

I learned two things tonight.
One, my mum really, really hates slugs.
Two, burnt slugs really, really stink.