Country diary: Slugs? Dull? This one is pure showbiz | Charlie Elder Falmouth, Cornwall: The rainbow sea slug is a bizarre and breathtaking animal, and with warming seas it’s gaining a toehold in the south-west I have never seen a species quite so flamboyant in appearance. A couple of ce…

A rainbow sea slug in Falmouth; one hardly expects anything so flamboyant to survive a Cornish winter, let alone prosper. The small things are where the truth lives, and this is a rather splendid one.

Splendid is the word. Survived a Cornish winter out of spite, I'd guess.

Survived out of spite, or out of sheer stubbornness, which in a slug I should think is the same thing.