frogs

Well my weekend made a rather different start this week, instead of the usual joyous day of ironing and washing, I had a pond to 'defrog'!! Yep you heard me right ............. defrogging lol

It's that time of year again when we have what looks like a bubbling pond!! All the little amorous froggies swimming about and doing what amorous froggies do!! We needed to get them out before we have the frogspawn to contend with ...... last year we had to take it up to the ponds on the golfcourse as we didnt want so many frogs in with the koi!! believe me a bucket full of frogspawn blubbing about isnt the easiest thing to drive up a narrow lane with ;o)

Anyway when the little froggies are 'doing it' they grab hold of the koi sometimes and hold them down and they die :o( so we decided it would be kinder to defrog the pond and let them run [jump? leap?] free elsewhere. Frogs arent the easier creatures to catch hold of in a 5 foot deep koi pond lol. Once I had a few in my bucket, I made sure there were no mourners in the cemetery and gave them a little extra freedom ;o) oh the frogs that is - not the mourners!!!

Anyway we now have a net covering the pond and I'll just keep an eye out and 'set free' any extra frogs I spy in there!


green btw in honour of froggies everywhere!!