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It all starts from the Spring Equinox, which plants definitely ‘understand’, although their ‘decisions’ also factor-in the weather since Christmas, whereas the calendar reckons by the moon after equinox.

 

Mind you, toads mate by moon-cycles, so who knows, maybe we should ask them when Easter is.

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25 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:

It all starts from the Spring Equinox, which plants definitely ‘understand’, although their ‘decisions’ also factor-in the weather since Christmas, whereas the calendar reckons by the moon after equinox.

 

Mind you, toads mate by moon-cycles, so who knows, maybe we should ask them when Easter is.

 

Exactly so... except the toads. Don’t know about toads. 

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We lived for several years next to a large park/natural area containing a long-abandoned lime pit and the canal.

 

Said lime pit has a quarry-face about twenty feet tall, now buried in woodland, and this is toad central, hundreds of little nooks and crannies, loads of slugs and bugs for them to eat.

 

Every year at the "wild mounting time", out they would all come by the light of the full moon, and go crazy, all over the grass, all over the footpaths, toads "partying" with abandon, as they made their way to the canal, which has a river-type bank, rather than 'sides', and went into the reed-beds to complete their frolics.

 

First time I saw it, while out walking the dog, I was staggered, but that was how it was every year. Three or four nights of carrying-on, then you'd barely see one for months on end.

 

The only other time I've seen anything remotely resembling it was in Sant Antoni in Ibiza, where a roughly similar protocol is followed by drunken British tourists, throughout the summer between the nightclubs and the beach.

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I have a very distressing memory of a trip to Cuba under the lead of my pitiless DiL. It involved very early starts from scary bus stations and destinations way past where one would wished to have alighted.

Right down in the south (across from the US's infamous Guantanamo Bay enclave)  we arrived at a State tourist resort (with free mesquite  cocktails for hard-currency tourists) but not before we'd squashed through about a kilometre of copulating toads alongside the saline lagoon.

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25 minutes ago, Porkscratching said:

Which sets me thinking .. what would be the soundtrack for the British toad porn..?

I don't think that there was ever a song called "Toad in the Hole" so the best I can suggest is this:

 

https://www.froglife.org/learning-zone/competitions-and-fun/froglife-songs/

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11 hours ago, Simond said:

Haven’t laughed so much for days

 

i was going to say “keep it coming” but thought the better of it

 

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I can't believe how :offtopic: this Thread has gone!! :no: and the subject it's gone on to :mosking:

 

Any danger of seeing some old trains again? :dontknow: :sarcastichand:

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OK the; a couple of train pictures:

 

My daughter’s train, which I might have shown before, although she’s now co-opted a weltrol to carry road vehicles. This replaced ‘Hogwarts Hall’.


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This one is just because I love the colours.

 

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Now, in the second of what looks like becoming a series, Ye Olde LM&SR.

 

The first vehicle in the train is a rather crudely over-painted Bing horse-box, and since I couldn’t find a horse, it is being used to carry a rodent. I like this van for its ‘play value’.

 

 

The joint personnel of Birlstone and Paltry Circus are now going to assemble at the staff sports and social club for a rousing chorus of “We’ll meet again”, inspired by HMQ, who they all thought gave a very suitable address this evening.

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Surely "Ye Olde Great Western" would have required one of Mr Gooch's singles (and perhaps a minor regauging of the track to 49mm)!

Seriously, keep the pictures coming. I must get the camera out...

Gordon

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