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Isn't it lovely weather we're having just lately? What I like about it, it's that it provides me with a lot of my favourite food. I know, you lot are thinking that I'm always talking about food. Well, let's be honest shall we, you humans have a passion for food, you see it and you want to eat it. Bob says that there are lots of humans who love to pig out on chocolate, whatever that is? Anyway, Bob says that some of you can't let so much as a single day pass you by without that you have to scoff a big bar of this chocolate, and, so I'm told, a few need a fix of chocolate on an hourly basis. Wow! And I thought I knew a thing or two about eating... Ribbit!!!

My life has been a bit hectic lately, and it's all because there seems to be more of those damned tatty furbags prowling around the garden. You know, a frog's life is not an easy one. What is it about you humans and your love of all these creatures with four legs and fur? Do they look up at you and give you that pathetic look that says, buy me and pet me, I'm cute and want to be your friend? Believe me, they are only thinking about their stomachs. At worse, they'll go into your neighbours garden and crap all over their prize petunias. Furbags mean war, and believe me, I'm at war with these scrawny flea-ridden creatures. Croak!!!

Are you still enjoying your credit crunch? Serves you right for being so damned greedy. Bob was telling me why this came about in the first place, so, now I know why it is that you humans are round the twist. I want to ask you one of my questions, but only because I doubt that any of you truly knows the answer. Bob says that many of your banking institutions lost billions to the sub prime mortgage market. Well, I'm just a plain old common or garden frog, but even I fail to understand one very fundamental question in all of this. Bankers being what one would call highly intelligent financiers, people that know a thing or two more than the average human about money matters, right? Then why is it that they didn't understand one fundamental point in all this, the fact that those without money cannot possibly afford to keep up with mortgage payments that are obviously way beyond their means??? Croak!!!

Even I can put two and two together, um, it makes four, doesn't it Bob? There, he's nodding his head at me, so I must be right. Ribbit!!! All that I can say about this fiasco, it's that somebody somewhere made a whole heap of dosh on your stupidity. Even now, Bob tells me that there are lots of humans who want to buy their own houses. Are they mad, or what? Don't they realize that once you start paying for their house, it never stops? What happens if your roof gets damaged, who pays for it? Why of course, they do. Silly me! Who pays for the leaky pipe outside your house while it's still on your property? And who pays for new windows when the house needs them, or rewiring when the electrical system becomes faulty with age? Yep! They do in every instance. What is it with this British obsession about owning your own home? Why is it that you can't wait to buy one, or save for a deposit just like your parents had to do? In fact, why this need to buy one at all? Is it truly worth all that heartache when the Building Society or Bank takes it off you because you defaulted on the payments? I think not! Did you think that they'd give a damn that you're being thrown out on the street? But then what does a frog know about human behaviour? Probably more than you think. Ribbit!!!

You know, there are the good things in life. For instance, all this sunshine has brought out lots of flowers in the garden, Daffs, Broom, Forget-me-nots, Bugle, Speedwell, Lesser Celandine, Apple Blossom, Cowslips, oh! and not forgetting those ghastly Dandelion which seem to pop up when your back is turned. If the present warm spell is anything to go by, we should see a whole lot more coming into bloom quite soon. Ribbit!!!

Oh, and before I go, the first of my progeny for 2008 are taking their first swimming lessons in the pond, bless their tiny webbed feet. Ribbit!!!

I'll see you all again soon and I hope you'll enjoy your gardens, wherever they are.

Froggy