Evening,

Ah, froglets, I just have to share this story with you. It’s so funny my sides hurt from laughing so much.

Well, this morning I went to see what Uncle Wilf was up to and crept around to his kitchen window which was open.  There, the delicious smell of roast chicken came floating out of the window and over my head.  It made me ravenous so I hopped up onto his window sill to see if he was around and would like some help with eating the chicken and found the chicken just sitting there – right in front of me on the stove along with some roast potatoes.  I listened for a while but could hear nothing so I hopped through the kitchen window and landed on the work top next to the stove.

I could not resist a roast potato…or three…and then I turned my attention to the roast chicken.  I only meant to take a tiny bit of meat of the leg, honestly, but somehow when I touched the chicken, all the leg came off in my hand.  So what was a frog supposed to do?  I couldn’t leave it, the damage had been done so I ate all the meat off the chicken leg and, froglets, it was sooo delicious so I ate a little bit more and then a little more.  By now the chicken was looking in a right poorly state so I did the only thing I could do, took it with me with the potatoes before Uncle Wilf found out.  You never know, he might have forgotten about his roast chicken – with any luck!

Anyway, I was half-way down the street having made my escape when I saw trouble – a furious looking Uncle Wilf coming after me.  Quick as a flash I hopped over to the nearest drain to the river and thought I had made good my escape but no, Uncle Wilf shouted, “oi, Errol, come here, that is my dinner you’ve taken”.  He had what looked like a packet of gravy in one hand and shook it at me as I disappeared down the drain pipe and shouted at the top of his voice that I was in serious trouble.

Oh, but his face and watching him as he ran up the street, froglets – it was priceless.  It was worth stealing the chicken just for that. The rest of it was just as delicious as what I had already eaten and now I am as full as anything but happy.

Sees ya later, froglets,

E