97 Not-so-wild life 2025

Happy Christmas 2025
A rotting tree stump provides an ideal home for woodlice.

It’s a cold and frosty Christmas season and the real frogs are tucked up under piles of leaves and among the decomposing logs in the yard. There are plenty of places to hide and, now frogs and newts could be anywhere there’s leaf litter, it has given me a good excuse and a necessity to leave everything where it is

A fallen log can be used as a dramatic decoration at Christmas.

Which brings me indoors where we do have some scent of the outdoors from our real Christmas tree. My favourite decoration this year though is a fallen branch which I’ve suspended from the ceiling in our hallway and decorated with real holly and berries along with some fake additions. There’s even some not-so-wild life perched up there.

Frog brooch by Vikki Lafford Garside.

There was a wildlife theme in my Christmas stocking too. No live frogs, thankfully, but some silver frog earrings and this handsome specimen  who will be keeping warm on my winter coat in 2026.

Happy New Year!

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