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A couple of weeks ago I was cutting some grass with my big old scythe and noticed something roll over in the grass as I swung the scythe. I noticed it was a toad, totally unharmed, it was just rolled over by the grass. It was about tea time so I popped it onto my veg patch to get stuck into some slugs. Yesterday morning I was looking round the garden and noticed (maybe the same) toad hopelessly tangled up in a net I had covering my cabbages. Anyway I whipped my knife out and cut the net away from its neck & limbs and off it hopped again reasonably unscaithed.

I have now taken the nets off the cabbages and am taking a risk with the pigeons. Can't win! Just glad I noticed the toad in time.

That's one lucky toad. Probably a cat in its former life.

Zoe

At the start of summer, I rode to the river to look at fireflies, and was surprised by a loud, angry squeaking under my front wheel. I seem to have ridden over a bullfrog in the dark. It seemed to be OK. Amphibia look soft and juicy and vulnerable, but they seem to be tougher than they look.

The arrival of summer, small animals are also out,
the fields of frogs,
is also happy singing songs of the summer night is really too beautiful.