Here is the toad! Or is it a toad? One of many? There is a toad in the cellar – but is it the same one? I saw the cellar one siting on the lawn-mower when I went to get some wine. Next morning I saw this one in the back bed. Same toad? Different toad? They are about the same size – a bit smaller than my thumb – but I don’t get how the cellar toad would get up the very steep steps. I can’t find anywhere that tells me the average territory size.

I kept coming across it when I was doing the back bed and having to stop and leave it. I thought it had gone away but then I thought I had sliced it with the trowel. I hadn’t but I think it was a bit scared!