It's Just Criminal...

Hello one and all,

There's a marked change in the weather again. Temperatures are up for the time of year, and... I'm pleased to say, that the dreadful snow and ice have disappeared from the garden and the pond. I was beginning to wonder when I was going to be able to take a bath again? Yes, even frogs like me have to take a bath sometime in life, preferably evenings and before it gets dark. Ribbit!!!

Bob, the gardener has been walking around here with a permanent smile on his face, though I'm not sure if it's because he's happy, or that he's had a drop of the hard stuff? He says that it's time he got on with a little pruning before it's too late. I must admit that I couldn't help but notice that there are lots of buds pushing their way towards the sky. To me, it has to be a sure sign that spring is on its way. I've also noticed that some of Bob's daffodils are not too far from flowering, nice! These will brighten up the garden no end. He also tells me that he's going to put some marginal plants in the pond for me. Now isn't that kind of him? Ribbit!!!

Being nice to others costs nothing, or so Bob tells me. Unfortunately, he wishes that he could say them same for humans in general. Being British, he explained, is like having the plague, yes, the plague! Who else is there that wants to buy up houses all around the world, just so they can say that they have somewhere to stay for two or three weeks in every year? Bob told me that unlike most Europeans, the British are almost the only nation that is never satisfied with what they have, they must have what everyone else has too. It's called greed!!

In France, by example, families buy one house, the one they intent to live in as a family. This is usually passed on from one family generation to the next. This means, that before the greedy British began to buy up houses at prices so inflated that the French couldn't ignore it, houses were very reasonably inexpensive for them. Now, ordinary French couples setting out together in life, simply cannot afford to shell out the sort of prices the Brits can and frequently do pay, in order to get a house to live in year round as a growing family. It's Just Criminal... Croak!!!

Bob says that the greedy Brits are doing this everywhere. He'd like to know where they get all this spare cash from, when prices of up to a quarter of a million pounds is commonplace?

Oddly, Bob reckons that it reminds him of what happened in Wales during 1979 and the early eighties, when the English were buying up houses in Wales to use as holiday homes. This rankled the Welsh no end, so much so, that the Welsh went around burning these properties to the ground... How long before we see the same thing happening with foreign second (holiday) homes?

You know, you humans appear to be at each others throats all the time! Bob told me about these "Gated Estates" that you are building everywhere. He says that instead of having an integrated society, it is fast becoming a segregated one. According to many, this is because of the lack of policing in the community. The police promise to give a show of strength by patrolling on foot on your human streets, but instead they end up in their nice comfy cars, where they prefer to chase after motorists, because it's easier than confronting what truly troubles human society, the yob culture that prevails every night without fail. I guess that Bob must also be talking about those "Hoodies" here? Croak!!! Perhaps this is why some of you want gated estates, and yet you know that it's not the answer.

Oh Boy!! Am I glad I'm a frog, 'cos being a human sounds like it's too much hard work, and dangerous too! Croak!!!

Take care now,

Froggy