And Season's Greetings to you and all pondaholics too!

For some reason I have been spending much of the autumn going into the cellar and rescuing toadlets who get washed down the drain into a pipe. Knitted a little toad ladder so they don't drown, but still have go around with a torch looking for them. Found one last week when I thought they were all supposed to be asleep.

May the New Year bring lots of splashes of fins and flippers!

Merry Christmas

Chip

Happy New Year to everyone. I hope you all had a lovely christmas and that this new year will be extra special. The weather has been a bit wild today as although it didn't seem too cold it suddenly sent down a hailstorm of quite large hailstones then stopped and turned straight back to warmer rain. The fish are all at the top of the pond surface as if it is warm so they are a bit confused as well. Lets hope we have the weather that we need for our gardens and our ponds this year. A nice sunny summer would be wonderful.
Best wishes for a happy new year
Alison

Here is a link that might be useful: Alisons nature reserve

Chip, Just read your reply. I'm glad I'm not the only one who does daft things to aid Mother Nature! I have bird feeders full of foreign finch seed on my windows for the sparrows and in the summer I find little wood-mice on my window-ledge feeding. They climb up a large fern I have in a pot by the wall but this dies back in winter, so I've rigged up a ladder for them to use in winter!
Big Kid