Colder.

It was a bit colder today so the frogs were lying low. As Peter didn't have to get up at the crack of dawn I too got a little extra sleep. There was still time for some moss and leaf picking up at the scree garden.

 There is evidence that the frogs have been busy. The earlier lot of frogspawn has completely disappeared. 

We had an eventful afternoon at school. We always start with a streamed phonics session with the children moving to different classes depending on their reading ability. Just as the session was ending the fire alarm went off, very loudly indeed. I told all the children in my classroom to walk down to the front playground which is our assembly point and then go to their class teachers to line up but some children tried to find their class teacher first. It wasn't a drill so we all had to wait out in the cold for 15 mins while everything was checked. It looks as if a child had set off one of the alarms either accidentally or deliberately. As my class needed to complete their work in the one afternoon we had to skip the short afternoon break to get their writing about the Queen finished.