I've spent the weekend over by the lake and the newly laid busway, rescuing baby toads. They apparantly are migrating to the lake from a local pond, but their migration route has been cut off by the (Mis-)Guided Busway. So there are thousands of tiny toads dropping over the kerb to the busway and getting stranded in the middle of it. My friend thought it would be a good idea to contact the local news, so that's what we've been doing. A web-cast video interview and photographs in the local paper to be published tomorrow! Aaaarrgh!!
A parting comment from the photographer suggested that we will be forever known as "The Frog Ladies", and not "Conservation Activists"!!! Oh well, at least the issue has been addressed.
I feel strangely positive today, maybe something to do with sucessfully publicising the toad plight, but I have loved my life today. After my interview, I went for a pub lunch in Horningsea, then had a little nap, then picked the kids up and went to Bootcamp where the workout was hard due to the heat, but strangely invigorating!
For dinner, I had some leftover rice and onion from our veggie burgers yesterday, so I costructed a kind of sushi plate from the rice, onion and home made vegan pesto, wrapped in a nori seaweed sheet and a raw cabbage leaf. It was SO good.
For tomorrow, I have my youngest with me all day, so after dropping Noah off at school, Lucas and I will be doing my favourite thing - Food Shopping. (seriously, I really love food shopping. I live from Tuesday to Tuesday!) Before that though, we'll maybe take a stroll with Bruno to the lake where he can cool off, and we'll check on the baby toads. Hopefull the newspaper will be waiting for me when we get back! Exciting!!
No comments:
Post a Comment