Try
saying that after a glass of wine!
I
was talking to my sister on the phone the other morning when I noticed two
large eyes blinking out at me from the corner of the room.
“Please help me,” the eyes were saying.
“I don’t like it in here.”
Fact
No. 1 Cats like to catch frogs at this time of the year. Mabel and Charlie
bring them into the house without apparently harming them physically...
although goodness knows what damage they do to the frog’s mental state of
health!
Being
a wimp I screamed and Mr A came to the rescue. He scooped up the frog and
carried it gently into the garden. He returned with slimy hands and I yelled,
“Don’t lick your fingers!”
Fact
No. 2 Frogs give off a poisonous slime
when they get hot. The slime causes hallucinations and can be lethal in large
doses. It does explain why princesses keep seeing handsome princes every time
they kiss a frog but I wouldn’t recommend it as an alternative to Internet
dating!
Mr
A was only too pleased to return the frog to the garden as they love eating
slugs [that was an extra frog fact thrown in for good luck!] but the frog didn’t hang around long enough for us to check if it was a boy or a girl frog.
Fact
No. 3 Frogs have ears just behind their
eyes. Boy frogs’ ears are as big as their eyes. Girl frogs’ ears are smaller
than their eyes. It could be that girl frogs got fed up of listening to those
amorous fellers with their extremely loud croaking calls and evolved smaller
ears... or it could just be one of those strange facts of nature.
Frogs are so cute... as long as I don’t have to pick
them up!
