The Christmas Feast

ANIMALS

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Have you ever let animals in your house? I don’t mean spiders or moths; I mean wild animals like foxes or hedgehogs. I know a man who did just that, one very cold Christmas Eve.

This man loves nature. He learnt about animal tracks. He learnt about trees and the wildlife that uses them. Not only to live in but also for food, seeds and nuts.

We are surrounded by technology. In itself not a bad thing, but it can‘t beat finding the traces of a deer in the mud, or hedgehog poo or putting the name to a tree when you find its leaf or just standing and listening to the bird song.

You can find nature in your own back garden at any time of year. Just open your eyes and ears. That‘s what the man in this story did. He – oops! I almost gave it away.

Why not find out by reading the book?

I have lived in and around Ipswich all my life. I have played conkers here, fallen into a river and got covered in mud here, and spent hours playing football at our local parks, sometimes about twenty a side. Now, I work as a gardener, a job I like. I love spending time outside, and quite often take some of my grandchildren for long walks to a river not far from where I live and now, we all go home covered in mud. I help look after the trees in Ipswich as a tree warden. I help to plant trees, some big and some small. I love nature and wildlife. in my garden, I have a large number of bird feeders, a bird box, and a pond, we have frogs, as well as fish and newts.

Quite a few years ago I wrote a book, called The Fox at Christmas. I wrote it for my sons after a fox visited our garden one Christmas. I like to draw and paint as well as write. I like sports, football, cycling, cricket as well as rugby. I play walking football twice a week.