The fierce, powerful storms of the winter at last seem to be over.
Days are now calmer however, we still get the rain but the amounts are a
lot more moderate. The floods are subsiding and the few hours of sunshine
between the showers is most welcome and really quite spring-like.
There has been a few fallen trees up in the woods and around the badger
sett but the ferocity of the storms, I honestly was expecting there to be a lot
more.
As I sit and watch the badgers, the sows getting ever nearer to cubbing
down, my thoughts are taken away almost sending a silent ‘get well soon’ to a
truly great politician, Tony Benn who has been hospitalised these last few days
after feeling unwell on Saturday evening and now the reports are sadly that his
condition is serious. The word ‘honest’ and ‘politician’ do not readily
go hand in hand but Tony Benn was the exception to the rule, he was honest and
extremely honourable. Some might say the last of a dying breed, the old
school politician.
Also in the news this week Tony Blair, another Labour politician whose
values seem to be a million miles away from Tony Benn's. Apparently six
days before Rebekah Brooks was arrested he had offered her advice on how to
handle the phone hacking scandal. I would have thought he would have had
enough to do out in the Middle East with the ongoing tensions between the
Israelis and the Palestinians for that is supposed to be his role since leaving
British politics, Middle East Peace Envoy.
As I listen to the various news teams reporting on horrific news turbulences
throughout the world I could almost be excused for thinking the whole hullabaloo
about the British badger is a very small molehill in amongst mountains of
catastrophe, but surely, the mountains of catastrophe are made monumental by
bad decisions, deceit and downright dishonesty, The Iraq war springs to mind.
But a comparison can be drawn, albeit nowhere near to the same scale
between the badger cull of 2013 and the Iraq war, but both situations were
brought about by mis-information. Information and statistics produced
solely to promote the government of the day point of view.
My
badger film this week shows two badger sows out in driving rain showing signs
of anxiousness, getting quite close to cubbing down.
Daddy
Cool can be seen at the end of the film scent marking his territory close to
the sett. Now his presence is more
important than ever. The sows take their
safety as a given for their welfare is in
the most honourable of hands, Daddy Cool, Lord Protector of our Woodlands.
A short film of badger sows and the Honourable Daddy Cool
An anxious badger sow a few days off from cubbing down.
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