A few Sundays ago we were invited for lunch in the country, afterwards we put the wellies on and set off over the East Cork fields where we introduced a jar full of tadpoles from Ballyhooley in North Cork to a pond surrounded by ducks and geese. The week before, another jar of Tadpoles was brought by the same guy to his grandchildren in London. Here is a beautiful video he made of  these North Cork Tadpoles swimming in an aquarium in London – they are probably now big frogs, happily hopping around Hampstead, croaking loudly with broad County Cork accents. In the video below, although filmed in a small aquarium, it looks like the tadpoles are in the wild.

Someone told me after – that there are strict laws about this – but we saw no protesters around the pond in East Cork with placards saying “Down with this sort of thing”. We used to have tadpoles in school when we were young – apparently they’ve stopped that too. If you listen carefully, the background sound is a radio news report on the necessity of a no-fly zone over Libya – the tadpoles don’t care – they’re not even listening.

Sometimes I think it would be nice to be a tadpole.

This short video is 21 seconds of ART (Thanks Rod!)