Frogspawn

[gness]

Does anyone have any yet? My daughter in Devon has a pond full but there's none here yet....that I know of.....

Gx

[tonyav]

I think most kids in my day used to collect frogspawn and tadpoles in the spring, stuey. Maybe catch a newt or two if you were lucky.
Dunno about Clayton lane though, stuey ( whether it's an highway or not ).

[stuey]

Yes, Jackdaw33; I remember that one:) Used to hate the stuff!

[tonyav]

Yep, frogspawn with a dollop of jam in the middle was one of the school dinner puds when I was kid, Jackdaw.

[jim360]

Did I hear you correctly???

http://i.imgur.com/Y2D3w.jpg

[paddywak]

We've no frogs but we do have,or did the last couple years, a Great Crested Newt.I suspect the spawn was imported on a visiting bird.We often have a look round to see if we can find find him a girl friend but we've had no luck.

[melv16]

Sure its not toad spawn she's got?

[stuey]

Trolling the woods, fields, streams, and ponds we did and enjoyed, as we had no Internet to troll:)

[paddywak]

Tony.frogspawn and jam was awful it was one of the few things nobody wanted seconds off.

[Jackdaw33]

Remember semolina and jam? I would go back for seconds before being banned as a greedyguts.

[tonyav]

Yep, nobody wanted seconds of that, paddywak.
Best of luck finding your newt a girlfriend, great crested newts are a rare species these day's I believe.

[tonyav]

Yeah, I remember that, Jackdaw.

[stuey]

Strange how your tastes change. As a kid in England, I hated mushy peas; now I love them:)

[paddywak]

I know tony I was warned off by ranger once,mind you the same lass met Trish a few days later when she was off duty and gave her a few tips to try as she said any way to increase the breed.

[tonyav]

Hey gotta love mushy peas stuey. Especially with fish and chips.

Best of luck with increasing the breed, paddywak.

[DaisyNonna]

rice pudding, tapioca and semolina, no thanks, hot milk, no.

[tonyav]

Daisy, at school dinners there used to be a teacher on most tables with the kids, they ate the same food as us including frogspawn and jam !.

[gailforce]

Here's hoping the frogspawn turns up in your pond soon gness, and that it lives up to your eggs-pectations

[stuey]

When I studied at Eaton, Cambridge, Oxford, and then attended Sandhurst we were served rice pudding with a skin on top. Tapioca...Well, it was left for the, shall we say, lower classes.

[tonyav]

I knew that I knew you from somewhere, old bean.

[stuey]

Well yes, quite. I do rather recall an old geezer by the name of Tony who waited upon us in the tuck shop.