Here's the sounds of the back garden recorded today at 7am....we are glad that we don't sleep in the back bedroom.
There is no hovering helicopter or road works taking place, that's our dawn frog chorus.
Saturday, 23 February 2008
Thursday, 21 February 2008
The Second Wave
They're back....here's some footage complete with very bad camera work.
As usual the frogs arrived during the night with approximately 70 in each pond by dawn.
The night time temperatures had been below zero with a layer of ice on the pond....I believe that these freezing events trigger the frogs to return to the pond for a second time, releasing more spawn...this being natures way of ensuring survival of the species if the first wave of eggs are destroyed by the ice.
As usual the frogs arrived during the night with approximately 70 in each pond by dawn.
The night time temperatures had been below zero with a layer of ice on the pond....I believe that these freezing events trigger the frogs to return to the pond for a second time, releasing more spawn...this being natures way of ensuring survival of the species if the first wave of eggs are destroyed by the ice.
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Thursday, 14 February 2008
Blodgit and Scarper
To Blodgit and Scarper Builders Co.
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your recent "final payment demand" letter regarding the roof repair to my property.
It is a pleasure for me to see that your company is so "green" minded in this age of "save our planet and global warming".
Most construction company's use large vehicles, unlike your workmen, who arrived and tied their horses to a neighbours fence, who suggested to me that they may have been brought in from your USA division....He was certainly convinced that they were a pair of cowboys.
Your companys green policy is also evident after the inspection of the new roof tiles fitted by you...what a wonderful recycling idea to simply remove most of my existing tiles and flip them over before re-nailing, thus giving the impression of a brand new roof at a minimum of ecological harm and cost to your company.
Your Mr Blake, the large gentleman who called on me last saturday to collect the money was still carrying a bat, obviously from his morning game of baseball, I am afraid that Fang our faithful Rottweiler took this as a possible fun time with bat and ball in the local park, ohhh Fang and Mr Blake had so much fun together playing hide and seek and I was surprised at how fast such a large gentleman could run and his great speed and agility at ascending the tree, where I believe he can be seen on Google Earth due to their recent update.
Now regarding your final demand for the sum of £1,250 I have passed all the relevant paperwork personally to my junior accountant this morning and I have enclosed a video to reassure you how seriously we are treating your concerns.
Also I am sure that you will be pleased that to maintain your company's green policies I will place any future correspondence from you immediately in our cats litter tray.
Yours affectionately.
M. Hayes
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your recent "final payment demand" letter regarding the roof repair to my property.
It is a pleasure for me to see that your company is so "green" minded in this age of "save our planet and global warming".
Most construction company's use large vehicles, unlike your workmen, who arrived and tied their horses to a neighbours fence, who suggested to me that they may have been brought in from your USA division....He was certainly convinced that they were a pair of cowboys.
Your companys green policy is also evident after the inspection of the new roof tiles fitted by you...what a wonderful recycling idea to simply remove most of my existing tiles and flip them over before re-nailing, thus giving the impression of a brand new roof at a minimum of ecological harm and cost to your company.
Your Mr Blake, the large gentleman who called on me last saturday to collect the money was still carrying a bat, obviously from his morning game of baseball, I am afraid that Fang our faithful Rottweiler took this as a possible fun time with bat and ball in the local park, ohhh Fang and Mr Blake had so much fun together playing hide and seek and I was surprised at how fast such a large gentleman could run and his great speed and agility at ascending the tree, where I believe he can be seen on Google Earth due to their recent update.
Now regarding your final demand for the sum of £1,250 I have passed all the relevant paperwork personally to my junior accountant this morning and I have enclosed a video to reassure you how seriously we are treating your concerns.
Also I am sure that you will be pleased that to maintain your company's green policies I will place any future correspondence from you immediately in our cats litter tray.
Yours affectionately.
M. Hayes
Thursday, 7 February 2008
The Frogs Feb 2008
The frogs arrived on the 5th February...the first wave, consisting of 5 males and 1 female, the second wave, during the night, was a further 50 adult, mostly being males, a number of females have spawned and the third wave could arrive any night in response to the call of the males.
Wednesday, 6 February 2008
Friday, 1 February 2008
Eye test
After kind of "failing" my eyesight test this week....i blame a bad day...but eye man says we are all getting older....this little clip made me smile
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