My conversation in the garden died suddenly last night
when I stepped on a frog. In bare feet.

Not a moment I care to remember, but I bet I will.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 17 May 2011, 9:12, 18 replies)

Open toad sandals?
www.gonetogetcoat.com
(the_icks has the sweet essence of giraffe, Tue 17 May 2011, 10:02, closed)

Ooof!
Well played, sir!
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 17 May 2011, 10:43, closed)

Amazing.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 17 May 2011, 15:41, closed)

I've done something similar...
But it was a slug
( snee held his breath since, Tue 17 May 2011, 10:42, closed)

Start with slug, then add crunchiness

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 17 May 2011, 10:43, closed)

I ran barefoot across a lawn one night and stepped on a slug,
must have been a large one, which shot up between my first and second toes and left my foot slimy. Urrrrk.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 17 May 2011, 11:35, closed)

I accidentally stepped on a rat whilst out running a couple of months back.
Less explosive than a slug, equally dead, more capable of ruining a good running rhythm.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Tue 17 May 2011, 15:37, closed)

Hahahahahahahaha! I remember reading about that a while ago!
Still funny but messy, I bet.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 17 May 2011, 18:08, closed)

It turns out that Asics shoes are remarkably resilient to the effects of rodent blood.

( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Tue 17 May 2011, 19:29, closed)

Oh god they're all muscular and slimy.
Ewewewewew
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 17 May 2011, 15:41, closed)

Frogs I can handle
Sunday morning I thought our cat was trying to get at a frog in one of our growbags. He was going mental at it, ripping plants out and trying to tear at the plastic and when I shooed him out of the way and touched the growbag it moved beneath my fingers of its own accord. Now I know there's a frog in our garden so I moved the cat out of the way and tried to gently extract the amphibian before he got his claws into it.

It wasn't a frog.

It was either a large grey mouse or a smallish grey rat that leapt out of the hole in the growbag, right in front of my face, and scarpered behind the greenhouse with the cat in hot pursuit.

*gibbers*
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 17 May 2011, 10:52, closed)

A few weeks ago,
a mouse ran across my foot in the bathroom. My boyfriend and I managed to corner it behind the bin, and I went off in search of something to trap it in, to throw it outside. Came back with a baking tray and a saucepan- unfortunately, he slipped when trying to slide the tray under the upsidedown saucepan and twatted the mouse across the floor and against the bath.

It didn't even try and run away when we put it outside, and later someone had run over it with a bike :(
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 17 May 2011, 15:43, closed)

The way to get over this is to
cover your garden in concrete.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 17 May 2011, 11:01, closed)

Or wear shoes
Concrete-soled shoes for the best of both worlds...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 17 May 2011, 11:09, closed)

These are also good for
swimming
(gr33npeace, Tue 17 May 2011, 14:39, closed)

Isn't "stepped on a frog"
a euphemism for flatulence?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 17 May 2011, 15:33, closed)

I inadvertently mowed a large frog in long grass the other week, which was fairly sickening for me, and probably worse for the frog. Took off its entire left-hand side - but it's all right now...
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Tue 17 May 2011, 15:57, closed)

Reminds me of the time I was kangoing a concrete patio and
went through the jaw of a large toad who had apparently been living in a large cavity under the surface. Fuck knows how I managed it but seeing as he wasn't going to be able to manage many flies without a working mandible I had to put him out of his misery.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Tue 17 May 2011, 18:21, closed)