A Birds Nest

Love Them!

I don’t know much about common things, like how to have a Gastric band fitted, or how fast the planets go as they rotate and all that. But what I do know is just as important: Badgers get a raw deal. Not because they strongly resemble one of those black and white boiled sweets that you can’t buy anymore—make a comparison, they really actually do—but because of their fiendish, malevolent nature. Apparently. It’s rubbish of course, a complete load of old tripe! If a badger gets fiendish or malevolent (or both, in extreme circumstances) then it’s more likely that you were in the wrong: my advice, don’t poke a badger unless you want to loose blood. And if you have to poke one, at least make sure it’s awake first.

I don’t know where all this started. I’m sure badger-hating has always been there in some form or another. All I know is that people have this idea that the badgers invaded our society, building sets deliberately to spite humans. While that may be the case in a small number of really evil badger cases, the reality is far different. Thanks to a TV show about Badgers the other day, I learnt something vital to the protect-the-Badger-from abuse cause: what I learnt was that Badgers had their sets here long before we settled. In fact, we were the ones who invaded their land, so it’s no wonder Badger’s have their face set in such a way as to always look in a mood–wouldn’t you be if people came and took over your land?