While putting out the washing this morning I heard a strange squeaking noise and wondered what it was. I looked in the almond tree but couldn't see a bird so I went back to me pegging out the bedding when there it was again. I looked down near the fence and there was a grass snake with its jaws around the back-end of a medium-sized frog. I rushed off to fetch Dave &amp; Lucie and Nick &amp; Val because this was very unusual.

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Slowly the snake engulfed the frog as it tried to crawl away and in the second photo you can see the frogs front legs with two sets of eyes - snake and frog. And as if by magic the frog was no more and the snake slithered away to digest a very large meal. David Attenborough eat your heart out...

This afternoon I took the Mazda CX5 for its first service and while I was there I was tempted to test drive a Mazda MX5. A quick (very quick) drive across the Wolds and back to Grimsby within an hour - phew. The Lotus is a wonderful car, frighteningly fast (and I mean that literally) but it is a struggle to climb in and out and any journey over two hours is bone shaking. Perhaps I should be considering a vehicle with a similar attitude but some of the creature comforts I have in the CX5.

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Should I? Would I? Could I? Watch this space for the answers...