Spring is here and summer will soon be upon us. Which means people will be looking for the next fad diet to try out to loose those pounds for the beach.

Well I've a diet for you: cucumber and dandilion leaves. If you do it right it looks like you actually "bulk up", because that's what is happening to Toby.

But before you try this new fad, you'd best be aware that Toby is our anorexic African spur-thighed tortoise. He wasn't allowed to hibernate last year because he was severly under weight. Well even though he didn't "hibernate" (live in a box in the garage) he did sleep through a lot of the winter in the corner of the "utility" room. Any how during the Easter break I decided that he should wake up, and so did he. Now he doesn't like his "greens" which is a problem - because that's what he should eat. So in despiration I looked in our "how to feed your tortoise" panflet and it said amongst other things cucumber. So I tried it and it's the dish of the anorexic tortoise. And I weighed him on Saturday and... he'd put on 70g (5% of his bodyweight)!!

The main draw-back: very toxic, rather-runny green poo... I know too much information. I just need it to get a few degrees warmer and he can go and live outside.