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07/05/2008, 17:55 Cat Joined on 21/01/2005 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot Posts 3,482 Re: frogs What, you mean you don't have any turtle doves cooing away outside your bedroom window at 5 in the morning, you don't know you're born you don't Weedon   Cathy Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.    Report

07/05/2008, 18:07 Russethouse Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 10,136 Re: frogs Tell you what, I'll swap you for the sound of the police helicopter going up when both your children are out (even if they are grown up !) www.quimperclub.org 99    Report

07/05/2008, 18:20 Cat Joined on 21/01/2005 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot Posts 3,482 Re: frogs Swap?  Not with me you won't, every time I hear the fire siren down in the village to call the pompiers to a job, I imagine the worst, and I have (as you know) a very vivid imagination Cathy Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.    Report

09/05/2008, 12:38 Weedon Joined on 23/08/2004 Laval (53) Posts 1,258 Forgot to mention butterflies Just be careful out there! http://good-times.webshots.com/video/3086250900100115447pqDrrZ    Report

09/05/2008, 21:11 mooky Joined on 12/12/2005 79 Posts 315 Re: frogs Why did I just know you would reply to my statement! I wrote what I did on behalf of the frogs who can't speak up for themselves. You obviously can, they can't;    Report

23/05/2008, 14:29 steve Joined on 30/01/2006 deux-sevres 79 Posts 61 Re: frogs I just had a thought, maybe Belle should have a quiet word with the frogs and ask them if they could only make noise between certain hours of the day, say 8am -12pm, 2pm - 7.00pm - 7.30pm If the frogs don't comply, she should report them to her mairie. As for complaining about me calling you shallow, what do you expect when you post something ridiculous on open forum! You can drain the pond, or not drain the pond, but you will have the frogs calling every year, whether there is water or not, you will also be destroying their breeding ground, as frogs return to the place that they were spawned. No matter what you do, you cannot escape the sounds of nature.        Report

23/05/2008, 21:19 Belle Joined on 05/03/2008 Posts 142 Re: frogs You are a bit late with your nasty reply, this thread was finished ages ago, and don't you dare say that anything I post on the forum is stupid, we are all here to ask each-other questions, and to bounce our problems and fears off of one another, if you don't like any of my threads, then ignore them. Easy as that.    Report

23/05/2008, 21:52 Gemini_man Joined on 10/02/2007 near Ribérac, Dordogne. Posts 267 Re: frogs Well I think some of you are being too hard and unkind to Belle. If you bought a house with a large pond out of frog breeding season and if you have never experienced a pond full of cackling frogs at close quarters before, it would very likely come as a big shock the first Spring that you were there. There are lots of ponds in and around the village where I live and I enjoy hearing the frog noise at a distance but no way would I want it in my garden and that doesn't mean I'm not a nature lover, far from it, it's simply that the noise can be overwhelming. Personally if I was in Belle's situation I would invest in a cheap pump and empty the pond or at least reduce it's size, discretely. As for people who have bandied personal abuse about in this thread I think it's rather sad that they cannot tolerate other peoples views and opinions without lowering themselves to being unpleasant.      Report

24/05/2008, 9:22 Gastines Joined on 23/08/2004 Les Gastines.St.Pere 5mins St.Malo Posts 888 Re: frogs We have 2 frogs ,very quiet and hopefully happy in their new home along with our2 newts. They used to live in a pond in a plot we are selling but after lots of tears from my wife [slight exageration] I had to build a rockery in a damp corner of our garden and install 2 new ponds,one deep , one shallow, albeit fairly small to rehouse them. They are still there this morning so I presume they are happy with the accomodation provided. If they get friends to move in and noise emanates from them ,they will be moving back to their old quarters. A new visitor arrived yesterday.a Jay, rather partial to cherries,left by freinds, and walnuts that I de-shell for our other birds. Although not a very well liked bird,we rather like them.Haven't seen one in our area before. Regards. and good croaking!!    Report

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