Day 120: Croaking wet

This evening, after our latest round of house-hunting the weather broke with some reasonably exciting thunderstorms. You would think an amphibian would be pleased about the damp conditions after a couple of dry weeks, but this one seemed to be asking to be let into the dry - knocking on our screen door.

Exile #2 said that the frog reminded her, once again, of E5N1. Maybe it's just as well we're going to have a little cool-off, I think the sun must have gone to her head. Anyway so far, in this blog, he has been compared to a misdirected fountain and a frog. He has also been likened to an armadillo because they are known to swallow air to make them more buoyant when swimming (E5N1 does the former but has not been able to see if it makes him float yet). He's also been called air-bag - for the same reason. Exile #3 also referred to him as 'chipmunk' the other day because of his developing chubby cheeks. Poor little man.

Lately I see that Mars has started advertising "Snickers Marathon" energy bars - how funny that sounds to Brits of a certain age. For those that don't know, Snickers was known as Marathon in the UK until Naomi Klein taught the world the importance of global branding (probably). Of course that is nothing compared with seeing "Dove" chocolate bars advertised. These are known as "Galaxy" in the UK and whenever I see the advert saying how smooth the chocolate is, I expect them to add that it is "made with 1/4 moisturising cream" like Dove skincare products. Tasty.