As a Newt

Let's hear it for J-M Silverwood when she was over, in the role of 'Hunter Gatherer'. We forgot to mention this at the time and we've just come across these pics when down-loading them to the PC. J-M is a bit of a one for the pond-dipping and spent quite some time sitting patiently on the bank of the pond armed with the tadpoling net.

On this occasion she got more than she bargained for, examining her wriggling net full she shouted for Dad. She thought she had tadpoles, which in a way she did. Dad fetched a beer glass and transferred the catch which you could now see were 5 young common newts, almost at the adult stage but still with gills, as you can see from this picture. Well done J-M! We knew we had newts in there but had not seen any babies.

J-M caught so many "children", she thinks she must have disturbed a class room in a newt-school, rounding up the naughty ones who were not paying attention at the back.

Obviously, no newts were harmed in the making of this picture and the children were returned to the classroom before "their Mummies missed them"

Go J-M !