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Old 06-09-2007, 06:27 PM
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Default Meet Tiny .......

so called because he's my newt .... minute - get it

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Old 06-09-2007, 09:12 PM
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Is he p*ssed? Where the heck does that saying come from anyway? Does he stagger, talk sh*te and puke up on the sofa?

Or is that only me?
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Old 06-09-2007, 09:36 PM
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...starting a new joke thread then??
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Old 07-09-2007, 09:58 AM
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That's a cute newt NTG (coooo I can rhym [sp]!!)

I found a teenie toad in my garden a couple of days ago, I was super chuffed!
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Old 07-09-2007, 11:18 AM
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Is he p*ssed? Where the heck does that saying come from anyway? Does he stagger, talk sh*te and puke up on the sofa?

Or is that only me?
Ahhh..... so it's not just me then
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Old 07-09-2007, 11:31 AM
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Gorgeous! Do you have a pond? Any idea what species he/she is?
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Old 07-09-2007, 12:38 PM
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We do have a pond BW but I've never seen newts in there ( means nothing though) I'm assuming he/she is a smooth newt and is currently living in hte greenhouse under some seed trays full of dahlia tubers
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Old 07-09-2007, 12:46 PM
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Handy ID guide here!
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Old 07-09-2007, 12:57 PM
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He's lovely Nick, can't make my mind up from the I.D. guide off Birdie whether it's a smooth or palmate type, has it got a spotty throat? It does say on her link that they spend time out of water outside the breeding season & lurk in damp places, under logs etc. & that the palmate goes further from water than the smooth. Never knew that, they're a bit like frogs then spending time on land for some of the year. Great pic.!
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Old 07-09-2007, 07:38 PM
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I'm sure he was spotty thats why I thought Smooth ( like me )
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cute, can i have one? pleeeaaassse?
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I don't have a newt since I moved and had to leave my pond behind, but I did have a Kermit (frog) visit me in the back porch the other day. It's become a sort of good luck thing, because for the last several years, wherever I've lived, I've had a frog visitor indoors at least once a year (it's a bit scary when it's in your bedroom, though (OK it was a basement bedroom, but I've still not managed to work out how he/she got in there). This year's visitor was in the back porch (landlord calls it a conservatory) and was very kindly replaced in the shady border.
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There were frogs on our allotment site & I decided to put a pond on ours and have been invaded I think they have kept the slugs down.
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