Outdoorsy Shite Top Trumps: March

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Flora or Fauna.

Extra points for a photo.

Handicap will apply to those in Forrin. Monthly win will not automatically go to, for example, a Cougar spot. The Cougar will need to be doing something awesome, like fighting a bear or doing sudoku.

Nighttime spot! Just seen a frog, leaping along the side of the road.

at betjeman dream.

I know a chap called John dunn (his middle name isn't hunter, I checked) but every single time I see him, I'm reciting 'how mad I am, sad i am, glad that you won' in my head.

That aldershot sun, eh?

Maypoles should be compulsory. End of.

And Morris dancers with pig's bladders.

(where's sgb when you need her?)

I have on occasion been described as Betjeman-esque. I don't think it's a compliment.

We need a pic to judge for ourselves, northey...

Whenever anyone says it, all I hear in my head is, Pam, you great big mountainous sports girl . Argh!

Ya gotta love him. His women are magnificent...

Do you play tennis at all???

No! Oh please don't let me be mountainous!

anyway, about those bluebells...

I spotted a frog. But no one seemed to care.

I cared Tell us about it :)

He was leaping steadily up the little streamlet that runs along the edge of the path. His little back was gleaming in the moonlight.

Aww.

Anything in the mer-caverns today?

No. Very windy. Maybe tomorrow

Forget-me-nots.

Frogspawn.

Envy at the frogspawn.

I can contribute to cow parsley snobbery... the chunky one is hogweed and I hate it - it gives you blisters if you get the sap on your skin. Here we get lots of wild carrot by the sea and I love it, it has one tiny red flower in the middle of a whole head of white flowers. Sadly not a March spot though....

And there is hemlock of course, which I think is intermediate in chunkiness between cow parsley and hogweed.

Hogweed is sinister and makes me shudder. I saw a programme about phobias once in which there was a woman with a phobia for plants with giant leaves. I can sort of understand that.

Hemlock on the other hand always seems rather the cosiest and most benign of deadly plants.

I get my umbelliferous wayside plants muddled up - cow parsley's the only one I really know.

What about alexanders? That should be out now, shouldn't it?

I saw some chicks hatch today! Three of them. Soooo cute.

Two Canada Geese in flight honking away like a couple of crazers. Wonder why they make such a hullabaloo? Not very discreet are they.

But Canadians have such a reputation for being meek and mild... perhaps they are the exception to prove the rule?

maybe the geese are the physical embodiment of a nation's repressed showiness.

Frog in pond, two friends have den frogs copulating - not sure if I'm jealous or not :)