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 05/05/2008, 16:13
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Cathy
 
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06/05/2008, 8:13
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steve
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06/05/2008, 19:36
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inkflo
Joined on 29/02/2008
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I have read these postings about the frogs with great interest & I can see the points of view of all sides here.
Yes, the frog noise can come as a bit of a shock, (laughing Hyenas come to mind!) But, once you realise that they are part & parcel of living in the French countryside, then I think you have to have a sense of humour about it.
We lived in Spain & the Cicadas (night time chain saws) came as a surprise to us at first, just as the frogs did when we moved here. I have to agree though that country life is wonderful & those Cicadas & frogs were here long before the human, car & motor bike (sorry Bugbear!) moved in.
The frogs do wake us up sometimes, but we love the windows open all year round & the owls, snuffling badgers, hedgehogs, nightingales and ... yes the frogs are all part of this wonderful environment.
They are all natural sounds of the planet, I expect our snoring & other bodily noises wouldn't sound too great to a frog anyway
It's all a bit like road noise, you won't think about it after a time... really.. you won't!
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06/05/2008, 19:54
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Clair
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I always sleep with the windows open (curtain closed).
In the UK, the noise of the passing traffic would build up from 5 am and I would have to get up and close the windows.
Here, I rather enjoy the sound of the dawn chorus...
Clair, a Real Virtual French Person
La vérité est si obscurcie en ce temps et le mensonge si établi, qu'à moins d'aimer la vérité, on ne saurait la reconnaître. (Blaise Pascal)
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07/05/2008, 10:36
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Belle
Joined on 05/03/2008
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This is a reply mainly to mooky and steve, mooky I had to shake my head at your comment, YOU say to me that I should repect the sound of nature, I gave you lots of sympathy when your noise was upsetting you, i.e neighbours, I class those B----y frogs as my noisey neighbours, they drive me mad du ring the day, and keep me awake at night, I can't write to the gendarms like you, maybe very shortly your neighbours will be gone, mine won't,and they will be back next year. Steve, how dare you call me shallow, I wouldnt have dreamt of saying that to you, I have lived all my life with traffic noise, I could have touched the trains at the bottom of my garden, we had one going past every half hour, none of that was a problem to us, so instead of calling you shallow I would have understood that different noises mean different things to different people, also incase you think moving is an option, it isn't, we couldn't afford to.
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07/05/2008, 11:27
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Russethouse
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Belle, I think most people are just astounded that you have purchased a house with a pond and are now complaining about frogs - if you have a pond, frogs come with the territory. Did it not occur to you at all ?
As it upsets you the practical matter to address is how to get rid of the pond, as cheaply as possible. Could you drain it ? (I think its probably a job for cooler weather, it will probably smell now) and then ask your friends to give you any suitable material for filling in, (if any of them are building or renovating they should be able to come up with something) then use the opportunity to plant things as Astillbes, Hosta's etc, things that like damp, perhaps have a pebble pool In the mean time I suspect it may be worth trying garden lights in the area, you could test it with a few candles first.
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07/05/2008, 13:03
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Belle
Joined on 05/03/2008
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thanks for your comments RH I think I have said before, that when we bought this house we asked the sellers about frogs, and were told, that for some reason they hardly had any compared to other people, call us nieve, but we believed them.Also even if that conversation never happened, we hadn't any knowledge of frogs, or their mating habits, or actually anything at all about them, we came from the city, on days out in the country we would come across the odd croak, but nothing like we have here, we must have hundreds. A lesson to be learnt by anyone not doing enough research.
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07/05/2008, 17:46
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Weedon
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Doesn't that just go to show that life here in rural France isn't just one big bowl of cherries as the TV programmes like to portray. Actually, it won't be many months now and then life will be many many big bowls of cherries, if only the Starlings would leave me some. I have owls that make a screeching noise and one (it might be more than one) that goes toowit to woo when it is particularly quiet. In my little (ish) pond I have some frogs that seem to croak Des O'Connor songs and there is an even bigger pond on the land nearby where an army of frogs make a helluva row which I can hear over the sound of the ice clinking in my drinks, there is even one that sits right outside my window and keeps whistling. Kestrels and Buzzards do their best to annoy me with their own noises and the cows in the field next door keep bellowing at their calves. Don't those green woodpeckers make a b***y din, and now the cuckoo has started. Altogether, life is a real nightmare here in Mayenne.
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