Hop Hop Hooray

Happy birthday to you

The frogs send love too

Happy birthday dear Darcy

Happy birthday to you

The first couple of croaks are almost to the tune of happy birthday...

(or am I deluded again?)

Feeling piggy?

The frogs were a little porkish peckish

. 

Home made pork wantons soon hit the spot.

They pigged out.

A little bit corny

For reasons I don't wish to divulge in public, the frogs in my household have recently developed an interest in......

Corn Fritters!

And dashed fine they are too (with thanks to Stephanie Alexander and her Kitchen Garden Companion).

With a cob or two of corn and a few other bits and pieces you can make something truly scrumptious.

Like this.

Me and the frogs?  we liked it.  A lot.

(Iron frog mess factor? High. Very high.)

Master of Arts

Apparently, today would have been Akira Yoshizawa's 101st birthday.  I am indebted to Google for this information.

If you used the google machine today you would have found this doodle:

"Hmm." I thought. "Origami."

And delved a little further.

Turns out Yoshizawa was a dab hand at a folding pieces of paper.

He liked to use wet paper.

And people who follow his technique are able to make amazing things like this.

Cool.  Very cool.

Sweet Art

Valentine's day has been and gone, but love of frogs continues in many households.

The talented Rosemary Irvine constructed this Peppermint Cream Frog just the other day.

Sadly, the lifespan of the Peppermint Frog is not a long one. And we are here to report that despite that widely known rule "Never eat anything bigger than your head" cannibalism is still common amongst frogs.

It's the legs, you see.  They are just so sweet....

Hot and steamy

Apparently, steaming your vegetables is the healthy way to go.  Far better than boiling away all the lovely nutritional goodness.

What they don't say is that you really need to be paying attention.

'Cos otherwise things go from "steamy" to "hot" pretty quickly, before rushing straight on to "smokin'!"

Oops.

Tonight's menu: Steamed Charcoal eggplant. Delicious!

The last post?

Once upon a time there was a Frog and a Potato who got married.

Despite their differences (including ageing and shrinking at completely different rates) they lived happily together and raised many children - all of whom were sent to school to ensure they received a good education (including learning about tolerance, familiarity with the Romeo and Juliet storyline and some basic biology - sadly lacking in the Potato-Frog household).

As well as raising their own myriad children, they were lucky enough to be God Bog Parents to a very special young human named Darcy.

For a long time Darcy was sick - too sick to go to school.  But thanks to some girly stem cells, an incredibly strong will, truckloads of love and support from his amazing family, a ridiculously determined, caring and gutsy doctor (and associated medical team) and rather more drugs than most people (or frogs) take in a lifetime, Darcy got better.

And went back to school.

The end.

Last post - script

Way back in 2010 when the Frogblog started we had no idea where it would take us (Paris, anyone?) but we did work out by early 2011 that Frogs can play a significant part in the healing process and so a committment was made to post something to the Frogblog everyday until Darcy was able to go back to school. 

Job done. 

I'd like to express my thanks to the contributors from around the world (including Finland, Indonesia and Tasmania) and especially to the Irvines, Gina, Melissa and, of course, Megan, Hugh, Mia and Darcy. And to the myraid of photographers and creative artists and bloggers out there whose own froggy works have helped to fill these pages.

Rest assured that this will not be the last you see of the Frogs - they have stories to tell and Iron-Frog meals to cook and a blogspot to do it on. But they feel can relax their daily vigilance now.

Good luck Darcy.

And may the Frogs Be With You.