If you build a pond it's amazing how quickly amphibians just appear, frogs turned up in the pond on my old lottie the day I filled it with water!

I'm guessing newts are probably still hibernating at the mo - the only one I've seen so far this year was when I moved a garden pot, but I've seen quite a few frogs, so I wonder if newts get active a bit later?

If anyone wants to try raising frogs or newts you can buy eggs from a Dr called Charles Snell who has a license to sell them - if you google him you'll get his details. As Pigletwillie said the other day, they are the best slug deterrent going!