Had a couple of playful visitors this morning.

@SJHoodlet I do like foxes, and I certainly blame Colin Dann and his Animals of Farthing Wood series for instilling this as Fox was one of the main characters.

The TV series was brilliant and also absolutely traumatising for 4pm children's tv viewing.

@Emmacox Never having seen it, I'll take your word for it.

But I also like foxes. Very much!

@SJHoodlet the book follows a group of animals who have decided to put their differences aside and band together as humans are bulldozing their woodland home. Led by Fox and Badger, they journey to a nature reserve where they know they’ll live in peace.

Many die along the way. Very, very horribly. The one I clearly remember in the tv series is when the mice have a litter of babies and they’re picked off by a shrike, which impales them all on a blackthorn bush.

@Emmacox That's awful. I would never read or watch something like that, even if there's some kind of happy ending.

@SJHoodlet I loved it, and it really got me into learning about nature when I was a child. It is certainly not as traumatising as the animated adaptation of the children’s book Watership Down.