Has progress slowed, or time sped up, it’s difficult to tell. All I know is that I’ve not updated this list in a while, but I think we’ve been busy. The frogs laid their spawn, left a couple of dead females at the bottom of the pool and departed. They might as well have evaporated for all that we saw of their diaspora. The spawn has hatched and now the pond is full of little tadpoles basking atop water lily pads and nibbling the edges. However, the continued dry weather is resulting in the pond slowly dropping and drying out. Rain is needed fairly soon. The good weather has lead to more time in the garden. Islay has been particularly busy, weeding a good array of flower beds and planting out over half the vegetable patch. The greenhouse is full of seed trays. It’s like the good life. I’ve been mowing. Until the ride-on mower just decided to stop this last Monday. I refilled it with petrol and it wouldn’t restart. It is now a useless lump, ...