strange froggies indeed

Earlier in the year we promised some of our frogspawn to a neighbour, for her mother's pond. She then said she didn't actually want the spawn, but would take a few tadpoles when their back legs came through. We're still waiting to see those legs. In the meantime, these tadpoles are bloody enormous and swim around the pond looking like the creatures in Alien Resurresction and refusing to move out of the frog equivalent of early childhood. When we see our neighbour she is too polite to say anything to us about her request and I have to confess I'm not really sure how to broach the shameful subject of our mutant tadpoles, so nothing has been said.

Now, Babycake will be mobile next year, so we have to do something about the pond. I've always been reluctant to get rid of it and wanted to find a way to make it safe and keep the frogs. However, now we have freaks of nature living in our back garden, I'm not so sure.