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Laughing Badger: Riddles and readers
"Where’s the torment in making a decision in plenty of time, when you can spend weeks nipping over the fence and back again, with several pauses balanced right on top."
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Laughing Badger: Retracing your steps
"As my late Mum, Claire, said, ‘If you fell in a muck cart, you would come out smelling of roses!’"
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Laughing Badger: Waylaid by a memory
"My days were filled with fields of corn, miles of wildflower meadow and pure clean streams brimming with brown trout, kingfishers, water voles and barn owls."
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Laughing Badger: A wildlife mystery
"I was fascinated by the natural sculptures, galleons, as the ‘paper’ clung to the reed tussocks as the water had receded."
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Laughing Badger: No fairy story, just a true one
"You could not fail to be moved, and although we couldn’t understand a word each other said, I understood her..."
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Laughing Badger: Fellows and forests
"I celebrated my elevation to a Fellow-hood of the oldest natural history organisation in the world with a pint of Monsoon Malabar coffee, and a bacon-butty."
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Laughing Badger: Secret glades with a sprinkling of pixie dust
"When the astral torch of the Summer Solstice illuminates our ancient monuments, I am in awe."
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Laughing Badger: A 'delight' of red squirrels
"So many signs are all around you in the wilds, meaning you don’t need to see the animals to know they are there, probably watching you."