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    The Pondlife Stories
    The Pondlife Stories
    The Pondlife Stories
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    The Pondlife Stories

    By John Gaulton

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    Welcome to the fascinating world of small creatures living in and around a garden pond as they enjoy their far from ordinary daily lives.



    The stories will introduce you to charming animal and insect characters who will entertain you with their experiences. They each encounter their own challenges as they become involved in exciting adventures. All of them contemplate something of life’s big mysteries from a remarkably human perspective. There is something to learn here about biology and the environment and perhaps one of these little things may carry a message for you.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Conrad Press
    Release dateMay 20, 2021
    ISBN9781839782688
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      The Pondlife Stories - John Gaulton

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      Francois Frog

      Francois Frog was sitting on a lily pad in his pond. The pond was in the garden of the house where the people creature children lived. The cat, the dog, and the big people creatures also lived there.

      A lily pad is a waterlily leaf and it is big and strong enough for a frog to sit on.

      Francois Frog was singing quietly, ‘A froggy day in London town…’ He knew he had a good singing voice for a frog. The birds had told him and they could sing really well. He was delighted there was a song especially for frogs. He had heard it one day coming from the very big box where the children lived with the cat, the dog, and the big people creatures. He didn’t know it was called a house. He had many houses. Sometimes in the water but mostly under rocks or bits of wood and even in the warm compost heap near the pond.

      He had no idea what ‘London town’ was but that didn’t matter. There were so many songs he had heard the children sing and that he heard from their house-box. Most of them made no sense to him but he liked the sounds.

      One song that was particularly strange was ‘Ring a ring o’ roses’. When the children sang it they ran around making funny sneezy sounds at the end and then sitting down suddenly. After that they couldn’t stop laughing.

      He was happy singing his own special frog song. ‘A froggy day in London town’. He repeated this line over and over again because he couldn’t remember any more of the words from the song.

      He could, of course, croak when he needed to. For example to let a lady frog know that he was there. For some reason lady frogs seemed to prefer the croaks to his singing. And croaks were really good for calling out at night when everything was very quiet in the garden.

      Nighttime was when he was most active, catching grubs and insects to eat. In the daytime he usually sat quite still on the lily pad, in the water, or under the leaves of plants near the pond. He needed to keep his skin moist because he was able to breathe through his skin. It was a very clever trick that meant he could stay under the water for very long times, for example in winter when he could hibernate in the mud at the bottom of the pond. He could sleep for a few months like that or under the rocks, or in the compost heap.

      Sleeping for a long time during the cold winter months is called hibernation. But he didn’t know that name.

      Like most of the creatures

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