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Pipp said:
Oh no! Could they be kept in an enclosed pen with a wire mesh lid? That is what we always did when we kept guinea pigs. Never lost one, though we did have an escape artist who would climb like a spider, and we never did find out how frogs managed to get in through the tight spaces in the wire mesh.
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They could, but right now they have about 25 square meters of room, with trees and bushes and such. I wouldn't enjoy them in a small but sturdy pen. Nothing ever happened to the grown-up guinea-pigs, so I leave it like it is and won't do pregnant guinea-pigs again. Lesson well learned.
 
The gardener has been today with two young men. Three of them working from 8 till 4 and just the front garden cleared. I now have some beautiful rockeries I never knew were there, and a path across that was covered with weeds and overgrown plant life, not to mention some quite exotic looking trees and shrubs. Tomorrow they start on the back.
 
heh said:
My daughter in law went to London today to be presented with her certificate for completing her GP Specialist Training :happy:
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A great achievement your daughter has done

Bet you are rightly proud
 
Pipp said:
Yes, unfortunately many neighbours are paving over their gardens, extending houses, and filling in ponds. We are trying to maintain a homely environment for the frogs and hedgehogs, who also make a meal of the slugs and snails, but we seem to stand alone in our neighbourhood.
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This summer I helped a friend build a pond and frog area with shade and logs. There are currently 3 frogs living there and they all have names! One loves to sit and watch us gardening.
I have lots of frogs in my garden, with frog and newt friendly log piles and damp areas. Trouble is, my cat likes to bring them in alive and they scream!!
 
I just found out I don't need to run my bg higher to get a sharper sense of hypo. If anything, I've been running lower in the past two weeks. The only difference is that I've only been below 4 once in two weeks, and not much below 4. Pretty astonished to be at 3.4/3.6/3.8 (different meters/libre) and not only aware of a hypo, which I would expect, but shaking, sweating and dropping things (my bottle of beer, yuck, and I couldn't clean it up right away because hypo, and it was the only bottle I had, grrrr), and being sad and angry at the same time.
I like having hypo-awareness, but if you ask me, this is a bit too aware!
 
Cumberland said:
I hope the weather continues to be warm and sunny for your break at Ambleside, Hayes Garden Centre is worth a visit, we go there often.
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@Cumberland wandered down to Hayes this afternoon - nice garden centre presumably it’s still independent unlike many which have been taken over and, in many cases, ruined by Wyevale?
 
Cumberland said:
Independent yes
How long are you staying up here
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Hopefully it will stay that way - we have a couple of independent ones near us and they are a lot better than the Wyevale ones which are all the same. We go back tomorrow unfortunately ☹️ but have enjoyed it so will prob be back in a couple of years time and stay a little further up in the Keswick area!
 
Daphne917 said:
Hopefully it will stay that way - we have a couple of independent ones near us and they are a lot better than the Wyevale ones which are all the same. We go back tomorrow unfortunately ☹️ but have enjoyed it so will prob be back in a couple of years time and stay a little further up in the Keswick area!
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All the lakes shorelines have receded due to lack of rain especially Thirlmere and Haweswater

Keswick is nice

Safe journey home to you and yours
 
Good morning Duckies. I woke up in a far more positive mood today and am now officially fit to keep polite company. Yesterday was a low mood day and a phrase my freind uses describes it well 'You could jump up and bite your own bum!' No bum biting today.
 
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