Nearholmer Posted March 20, 2020 Author Share Posted March 20, 2020 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. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 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. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 20, 2020 Author Share Posted March 20, 2020 (edited) As a sometime toad-v.oyeur, I can tell you that they have a massive o.rgy at a full moon, early in March. (is the censor taking words out automatically? It is!!) Edited March 20, 2020 by Nearholmer 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted March 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2020 I never knew where they were going. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted March 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Northroader said: I never knew where they were going. If they sped up a bit, it woudl be better for all concerned. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted March 20, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 20, 2020 Considering what they were up to, they might as well take their time, and enjoy every minute. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 20, 2020 Author Share Posted March 20, 2020 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. , 3 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
runs as required Posted March 20, 2020 Share Posted March 20, 2020 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. dh 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 20, 2020 Author Share Posted March 20, 2020 I somehow imagine that (un-squashed) Cuban toads would have dancing and exciting guitar music to accompany the general abandonment to lust. 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 Haven’t laughed so much for days i was going to say “keep it coming” but thought the better of it atb Simon 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkscratching Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 9 hours ago, Nearholmer said: I somehow imagine that (un-squashed) Cuban toads would have dancing and exciting guitar music to accompany the general abandonment to lust. Which sets me thinking .. what would be the soundtrack for the British toad porn..? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 4 minutes ago, Porkscratching said: Which sets me thinking .. what would be the soundtrack for the British toad porn..? 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted March 21, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 21, 2020 (edited) 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/ Edited March 21, 2020 by St Enodoc 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkscratching Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 The Brit ones will certainly be having a fag and a cup of tea after the deed is done.... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 How did the fairy get pregnant? sat on a toadstool.... sorry 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 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 atb Simon I can't believe how this Thread has gone!! and the subject it's gone on to Any danger of seeing some old trains again? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sncf231e Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 18 minutes ago, F-UnitMad said: Any danger of seeing some old trains again? Regards Fred 6 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 21, 2020 Author Share Posted March 21, 2020 Nice train; nice bit of "big band". Pity about the absence of toads. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 7 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: Nice train; nice bit of "big band". Pity about the absence of toads. Ta daaaaaa !!! 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 21, 2020 Author Share Posted March 21, 2020 I should have seen that coming! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted March 21, 2020 Author Share Posted March 21, 2020 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’. This one is just because I love the colours. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simond Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 32 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: I should have seen that coming! don’t you start... 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted April 5, 2020 Author Share Posted April 5, 2020 (edited) I felt the need for Ye Olde Great Western after calm had descended yesterday evening. Edited April 5, 2020 by Nearholmer 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted April 5, 2020 Author Share Posted April 5, 2020 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. 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRASinBothell Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 (edited) 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 Edited April 6, 2020 by GRASinBothell Posted too soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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