Maligning Hedgehogs

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28 March 2017 at 13:52

OK hivemind I need answers.   

A couple of weeks ago my garden pond was chockka with frogspawn.  Most of it has vanished.  Any ideas what happened?

30 March 2017 at 09.27

Yesterday all the frogspawn had gone (we think eaten by a hedgehog).  This morning a fresh small batch has appeared.   

Wondering about putting it in a rainwaterbutt for safety until the tadpoles hatch.  Any ideas?

Woolerwoman  Has that happened before?

If you put them in a waterbutt, would the froglets then be able to get out?

Did you support the Badger Cull petition? I got a link to the debate yesterday, read the whole thing and posted the link separately but one of the pro-cull speakers said some of the most stupid things I've ever come across, including 'badgers are harmful predators destroying wildlife ‘...(including frogs and toads).!!!

Bentonbag  No but we couldn't think of anything else that might do it.   

Froglets have no problem getting out of a water butt.  Their feet seem to stick to most surfaces.  I've put a sieve over the frogspawn.

Signed the petition.  I've almost ceased being surprised at the stupidity of people.

Woolerwoman  Glad you sorted the frogspawn. The sieve will keep the badgers out.

3 April 2017 at 16:22

I may have maligned the hedgehog. 

There are tadpoles in the pond.

There is also frogspawn.

Fester thinks the first lot of frogspawn must have sunk into the stuff at the bottom of the pond.

Ms Delune  My Grandad was a fan of maligning hedgehogs, a former farmer he was adamant poor yields of milk were down to the blighters drinking it from the cow. 

Clearly the Pembrokeshire hedgehog is a larger specimen!

 

Persistence

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28 March 2024 at 22:28

Back in 2020 we planned to stay at the Fairlight Guest House in Glenridding to have a trip on the steam boat during February half term.  

However Ferretfingers broke his ankle a couple of weeks before so I had to ring and cancel.   

We eventually stayed at the Gilsland Spa Hotel and drove down Glenridding for the cruise, in August 2021.

However: ever since he's been nagging about going to the Fairlight Guest House in Glenridding.   

For someone with a communication disorder he hasn't half got nagging sorted.   

I've finally given in and this evening managed to book a night at the ****ing Fairlight Guest House for Saturday 14th September.

We will be doing a train, bus, stopover, bus, train trip there and back.

Maybe now he'll get off my back.

 

Duvet Dissent

When I go up to bed I am usually joined, a little later, by Teddy the ginger pschycocat.

Felix the aged black and white cat also joins us for part of the night, or early morning.

Regular readers may remember that for the past week or so I have been using a separate single duvet in the martial bed.

As we were taking coffee after tea yesterday evening, whilst watching Pointless, Felix came and sat on my lap, and Teddy sat close by on the edge of the coffee table.

“Have you noticed” I commented 

“he hasn’t been attacking Felix as much as he used to?”

“Getting older” replied Fester.

“Yeah.  Quite often when I come up to bed he’s on the chaise longue and Felix is on the pouffé.  In fact, if he doesn’t come tappy lappy after me into the kitchen for supper when I come up to bed, he stays down here on the chaise longue and I don’t see anything of him until morning.”

“He’s probably railing against the use of two duvets.”