Glo and the singing frogs!

It’s a really beautiful morning here, the birds are singing and so are the frogs!

I know that nowadays time seems to fly by but I need to check that it’s definitely September, not October, 24th as I’ve been wished a happy birthday!

Whoops, but never mind as it’s now my unbirthday and it has certainly got off to a hilarious start thanks to Glo and the singing frogs!

Have a good day!

Hello again!

I went to top up the wildlife pond with water this morning and look who I saw!I would like to think that it’s Frog Newton who I last saw when I was just Pottering and pondering in June last year.  Then he was only an inch or so long but now he’d comfortably fill the palm of my hand.

At least he stayed still long enough for me to get this photo before he hopped off into the long grass.

The Canuck twins

Sadly I’ve not seen Frog Newton again since I was Pottering and pondering during June last year.  Glo (Porcelain Rose) mentioned him yesterday,  and also recently asked me how the Canuck twins that she sent me are doing so last Friday I caught up with them and took a few photos!

They tell me that clinging to the top of an old sunflower stem gives a  great view of the plot

When it’s  sunny sitting on the rock in the pond  keeps them nice and cool,

and that the log pile is just the place to sit and chat quietly

I should perhaps mention that the twins do also have a practical use as they are really decorative plant ties!

Happy ponderings!

Welcome additions

Fraggle, and family, have very kindly sent me these two very welcome additions to my collection of frogs.

Master and Missy Frog are seen here sitting on top of my PC monitor.She’s holding a bouquet in one hand and making sure that her pond lily leaf bonnet doesn’t fall off with the other!

Fraggle’s son Robin also sent me a terrific Red Arrows poster!

Mostly mooching

Not surprisingly I’m not really in the mood to do an entry as I would normally do on a Sunday.

It’s been a typically wet Easter so far, although it’s not actually rained today so far, so I’ve not been plotting since mid-week. I had a look round this morning and was pleased to see my first lot of potatoes now showing, as were some onions and broad beans. Hopefully I’ll be able to do some work there tomorrow and then I’ll do a plot entry telling, and showing,  you how it’s all doing and looking.

I’ve been mostly mooching the past couple of days drinking  too many cups of tea and having eaten all the chocolate biscuits.  I watched, and enjoyed, Finding Nemo yesterday.

I’ve also been reading Empire of Sand by Robert Ryan,  which is proving to be an absorbing story.

One item of sad news is that something, a fox I would guess, clearly took exception to Daisy Duck as I found her on the plot with her head chewed off!

On the plot most of the daffodils have now finished but the window box is still looking good, and  I particularly like the mini-daffs down in the left-hand cornerI think that I shall move most of these bulbs out onto the plot later on and go for more mini-daffs and some hyacinths next year.

I want to thank everyone who commented on my last entry. It’s one that perhaps, on reflection, I shouldn’t have done  but  I’m grateful to you all.

A froggy Friday!

I started yesterday as I generally do with a cup of tea and a look at various news websites where I came across this item.

Later in the day the post arrived and included a hand-written and lumpy envelope. I opened it up to find this wonderful hand-made card with a furry green frog floating on his back in a pond,  along with another one.

The message in the card reads… To Uncle Flighty from Robin and Isaac…who are Fraggle’s sons. It really is nice to be thought of like this!

After lunch I was reading Nikki’s faves for mar 27 post at the end of which she mentions Frog Newton and links to  Freakiest and Weirdest Froggy Frog Frogs!

Not only was it a froggy Friday but thanks to the smiley ecard my lovely friend Daffy sent me  it was an upsy-daisy day as well!

I’ve had the sniffles and a sore throat most of the week but was feeling somewhat better yesterday thanks I’m sure to the feel-good factor generated by these cards and blog post.

Thanks to you all!

Incidentally I’m building up quite a frog collection but it’s nowhere near as impressive as Glo’s frog ensemble!

Meet Frog’s pondie!

This morning I found this delightful little duckling on the new pond…which apparently she likes as it’s nice and shallow.

She also likes Frog’s pond…and felt sure that he’d not mind sharing it!

She ended up happily nestled in the log pile…which was where I left her when I came home.

She was very quiet so I didn’t find out her name. Any suggestions as to what it might be will be most welcome!

Frog ponderings in springtime

As I mentioned in Sunday’s post I moved the original pond last week. Thankfully Frog Newton seems happy with his home being moved if this card is anything to go by![Frog should be hopping across the picture and into the pond like this!]

Frogs everywhere seem overjoyed that springtime is here if blog posts such as NiC’s London Daily Nature Photo First Spawn and Proud Parents, Uphilldowndale’s Sunny Mood and Georgie’s So pleased are any indication!

My thanks to Glo (Porcelain Rose) for the images.

Happy ponderings! 

Hoppy New Year!

Frog Newton would like to wish Fox Newton,

all the other wildlife on Plot 124, as well as Glo (Porcelain Rose)*, Flighty and everyone else who looks at Frog ponderings a Hoppy New Year!

[* My thanks to Glo for giving me the idea for this post with this photo, her comment and the image above which she sent me a few weeks ago!]

Froggy things!

Back in October I received a parcel full of froggy things for my birthday from Glo(Porcelain Rose)

At the top is a handmade Froggy card, below that to the right is a chocolate frog, the gold foil wrapper contained a delicious dark chocolate wafer, in the middle is the only copy of the Frog ponderings book and over on the left are the Frog Canook twins who we’ll have a keep an eye out for on the plot

Some time ago I mentioned in a comment about possibly turning the plot into a rice paddy if it kept raining! Well Nikki and Beginninghere remembered that and sent me a fine pair of wooden chopsticks which they figured would be useful if I did!

They also me sent a wonderful hand carved Frog Socal , which you’ve already seen sunning itself on the plot log pile.

Once again my thanks to you all for these froggy things!