“We like what you’ve done with the place,” say the frogs and toads
One of the things we’ve done over the past year is develop, by necessity as much as for any other reason, a woodpile at the bottom of the back garden. The hedging we inherited was rampantly overgrown, and there was only so much shredding we could do. The branches and sticks that remained after the blitzing of the hedges were piled up high, tucked away, and left to rot down as they surely will, albeit over a period of years. Our neighbour has since remarked that she used to get a lot of frogs and toads in her garden, but this year hasn’t seen any. The reason why, we think, is because they’ve all moved next door, to us!
How would YOU spend the last day of everything?
It’s been a while since I’ve taken part in a meme, let alone started one—but today, I’m asking a selection of fellow bloggers a very simple question, assuming we’re all still around today and over the next week at least, in order to provide answers. The question is this: how would you spend your last day on Earth, not only your last day but the last day for everything?
It’s the day some people have feared, when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is switched on in an expensive quest to find the so-called ‘God particle’ otherwise known less sensationally as the Higgs boson. It is said to be crucial to gaining a greater understanding of the universe—assuming it exists, and can be found—and is thought to give everything its mass.
