Are you sure it wasn't just your kettle not turning off again?

It works both ways too ... it's dangerous for the crinkly skin too. We have loads of chemicals on us that can irritate them if we handle them.

I'm just glad I've never unwittingly bought a hitch hiking tree frog in a bunch of supermarket bananas.
 

Quote from: Mups on <strong>Yesterday</strong> at 03:40:00 PMI am pretty useless at being organised.
I write down things I need to see to,  but  nearly always get distracted, and end up doing something entirely different. 

I'm just the same.  It comes with old age.

Misty here all day and at 4 this morning it was real thick and hanging like a shroud in the sky. Real creepy.
I rather like fog. 

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Amphibians can be surprisingly dangerous.  I recall David Attenborough talking about this little beauty on Life on Earth (iirc, but he's done so many programs)...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_poison_frog

Quote from: muddy on October 31, 2026, 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 .

Muddy,  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>Yesterday</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!