April showers

Ok, ok, I know.....I have been lazy again. But time is passing so quickly at the moment, and I am afraid to miss something if I sit down and think about what to write. I don't even dare to nod off, just in case the pond robber returns. We lost another fish, and I failed to see who took it. It may have been one of the many neighbourhood cats, or one of those greedy magpies. All I know is that my FH found the poor fish in the middle of the lawn. The rest of the fish have been very nervous and shy ever since. The loss of their friend must have been very traumatic.

The tadpoles seem to be doing fine, and I keep seeing plenty of frogs and a few newts. There was toad spawn in the pond, but I am not sure if that managed to avoid being eaten by the fish. The plants are all doing really well. A few of them got damaged by late frost, but they will recover. The tree peonie has several healthy looking buds, and the iris by the pond is enjoying its new sunnier aspect.

The BAD last month went very well. I felt that I got plenty of attention, and that I was very useful. Of course I will never be able to compete with the fluffy bunnies. The guests seemed to have had a good time, anyway. Hopefully we can repeat this in the summer.

My FH told me about the drought that England is supposedly going through. And that she's not allowed to use the hosepipe to water her plants and give me a cheeky splash once in a while. April hasn't felt particularly dry so far, but apparently it'll take a lot of rain to refill the lakes and rivers. People are just too wasteful with water. They should try and live without running water for a while and see how that feels. My FH says that her parents and grandparents never had a shower every day, and hardly ever a bath, but they still didn't smell bad. Why is everyone so obsessed with hygiene nowadays? Imagine how much laundry needs washing, if people change their clothes every single day. And then all those golf courses that need watering. Isn't there a better way to make use of that land? Britain has more land wasted on golf courses than it has protected wildlife areas. That's just wrong. Golf courses are so boring and not wildlife friendly at all. And they don't seem to have any benches. How very sad. :(

That Google Earth treasure hunt my FH was so obsessed with, has now finished. Apparently some guy in Germany won the grand prize. Hopefully he put as much effort into the puzzle as my FH, and wasn't just a lucky lurker. Now everyone is waiting for another book. My FH would be really good at coming up with some tricky puzzles, but she doesn't believe in herself and is too scared to start any big project. But if she writes a puzzle, than she won't be able to take part in solving it, so maybe that's why she's not so motivated. She still tortures her friends with all sorts of photo quizzes. I think she should create a book with photos of benches from all over the world. I would buy that.