Quote from: muddy on <strong>Yesterday</strong> at 10:40:15 AMYesterday I found a little toad  swimming for its life in a bucket of rain water .
How it got in there is a mystery but it couldn't get out .
I rescued it
Haven't see a toad for years .

I can only think that perhaps a bird had taken it, but dropped it again,   possibly because of the toads awful skin.

 A few years ago I believe I wrote about my dear old elderly Bedlington picking a toad in the garden up one night,  and its skin had a horrific effect on her almost instantly. 
 She looked like a rabid dog.  Mouth frothing and foaming,  eyes dilated like a mad animal,    really frightened me and I had to call the vet about midnight for advice!

You can set one up yourself

Awww!!! Poor little thing..
I'm scared of frogs and toads.. I always have been.. Goes back to my childhood..
But... I would have rescued it.. I can't bear creatures struggling..

Quote from: Scrumpy on <strong>Today</strong> at 04:54:03 PMI have had so many problems with bloody Ivy..
One of my fences was covered in it.. In the end it was just Ivy.. Heaven knows where it came from..
I put a new fence up.. and.. I am keeping a close eye on it..

It is certainly not easy to get rid of it, is it.
I have got it coming through the fence from next door on one side,  and another lot coming through the fence from the neighbours that back onto me too. 

I noticed the other day that the family in the rented house across the road, have got it climbing rapidly up their satellite dish cable!

QuoteGardening tip. Never plant ivy. At some point when it is a monster you will decide it has to go. I just spent most of today chopping one down and shredding it. There are better ways to spend a day.

I have had so many problems with bloody Ivy..
One of my fences was covered in it.. In the end it was just Ivy.. Heaven knows where it came from.. 
I put a new fence up.. and.. I am keeping a close eye on it..

Put it up on another forum then.

The only replies I've seen so fat are why and the last I saw of the voting late last night  was 1 for 2 against and I hadn't voted.

The low posting volume here and shortage of users is exactly why I don't want a like button. Come to that I've no idea if it is a standard feature or if there is a mod to add one. Like buttons are for social media and the likes of YouTube who use it to decide what of millions of videos in front of someone logging in. I don't recall ever seeing one on a forum and I've seen a lot of forums over the years.

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QuoteWhy not put one up on here I love looking at other peoples paintings ?

We could have a vote on it..
I'll ask Klondike to set up a voting poll...
😂🤣 or perhaps not..

There are around 8-10 of us on here klondy, with at least a couple taking a sabbatical from forum life in general.

I doubt that a like button would make much difference to the posting rate.  As I keep on saying... it'd be for a trial period initially.  If it proved to be detrimental, iirc turning it off is no big deal.

As for the poll- it was my poll, not yours.  You changed it, and the variables I wanted to measure.  Ergo, it's no longer my poll, so I got rid of it.


And yes, I did read Gemini.

Fish and chips was a couple of quid
The first in the queue was always Sid
A packet of Embassy was 2/6
And Woolworths had Pick 'an Mix