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Retlaw

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Spring must be here, frogs have come back to the pond, and started kapertaling, about a pint of frog spawn so far.

Retlaw.
 
Retlaw said:
and started kapertaling, about a pint of frog spawn so far.

Retlaw.
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Well, that's a new word I've learnt today .. :eek:

Used to love getting frog spawn as a kid, and watching them develop into tadpoles, then the little legs growing. Aaaaah.
 
spring is definately here .. i got flowers in my garden!!!:D:D:D

just took these all of a couple of minutes ago and saw my first wasp of the year ..

looks like im going to have start tidying the garden up!!! :D:D:D

and my next door neighbours cat enjoying the sunshine!!! :D:D:D
 

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Yes, spring has most definitely sprung.......all my seedling are poking their little heads out from the seed tray....
 
springs here too

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Ladies should remember not to swim in open water, until after the spawning season has ended, unless wearing a very snug swimming costume.
 

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Katex - isn't Retlaw's "kapertaling" an old Lancashire word from the verb "caper"? I remember my mother using it when I used to dash about - but she pronounced it with the emphasis on "pert".
 
ossylass said:
Katex - isn't Retlaw's "kapertaling" an old Lancashire word from the verb "caper"? I remember my mother using it when I used to dash about - but she pronounced it with the emphasis on "pert".
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Thanks Ossylass .. could be .... thought was a great word for t'other though ... :D

shillelagh said:
and my next door neighbours cat enjoying the sunshine!!! :D:D:D
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Photo I took down Mitton last week:

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Noticed my neighbour's cat was doing just this today Shill ... sat on my bench lapping up the new warmth that Spring brings.
The flowers are awakening from their Winter sleep, had a column of midges today dancing merrily around each other.
Birds are beginning to collect small fingers of branches that have escaped from their mother tree and golden sunbeams are floating through my patio window shining their magic on ....









the blooming dust !!! :(
 
As Thos. Kennedy used to say:

Spring has sprung, the grass is riz,
I wonder where the birdies is.
The bird is on the wing,
But that's absurd;
The wing is on the bird.
 
depends yerself .. if they start singing at 4am like they did this morning .. then they may just not be around again to see the sun coming up ..
 
8c this afternoon .... bbq weather; most of my neighbours were out burning meat on the grill .... general concensus was "nice day, eh" ...
 
shillelagh said:
depends yerself .. if they start singing at 4am like they did this morning .. then they may just not be around again to see the sun coming up ..
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The little sods were at it at 11pm last night in Rishton but it serves me right for feeding them all every day.

We've just started the gardening round in earnest and I think we're due a collossal ladybird infestation this year as we've noticed them as early as January.

That's very good news for the birds though, plenty of extra food!
 
17 deg today, Acacia in full bloom as is the Camelia (expected), bulbs flowering, hazel catkins, new shoots evrywhere and of course the weeds are trying to get a head start on everything else. Left the uoutside light on late last nigh - when i went to turn it off at about 2230 there were birds at the feeders and a mouse scavenging under the feeders. - Spring is here for me.
 
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