I truly believe that gorgeous Señor Froggie, decked out in his alluring finery, has made all the difference. The very day after he appeared, resplendent in his pagan florals, his froggie friends began arriving for their Spring sojourn in Pond 1. 
Don’t tell me they weren’t lured by this fine upstanding figure of a frog. How [...]

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Silence reigns at the Court of King Crrroakticus.
The Harem has omitted to turn up, pop along, show willing. Or, indeed, anything.
Poor lonely King Crrroakticus. He pulled out all the stops - see how he dolled himself up and decked himself out in all his vernal finery for the 2009 lovelies of Frogdom; see the cornucopia [...]

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The joys of local radio are sometimes strained.
One minute, in a semi-snoozing snuggly daze, you’re listening to some whingeing pom making an erronious and undeserved complaint against a very hard-working local charity, which helps the finest, grandest and most gorgeous creatures on Darwin’s Earth: the next, in the Daily Community Diary, a voice tells you [...]

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EffCee’s Snowy Frolics
I quite like this weather, now we have got our own winter wonderland at last. M’Marmalade Chum was not so sure and stayed put under a bench while I boldly went…
First, I took fpu and digicam around by Holly Tree (not to be confused with Fred’s Holly, [...]

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Remember the thirteenth? Reet graidly it were, (’Scuse me a moment, I inadvertantly fell into a Bill Sowerbutts) a lovely lovely day. Sun from dawn to dusk, balmy air, no wind to speak of - and believe me, if there is, we do.
Inspired and energised, fpu donned scruffy Red Cross gardening clothes (you might be [...]

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