David Binelli

  The Squirrel with 3 legs   By David Binelli ©2022 DM Binelli. All Rights Reserved                    2447 words     High in an Ash tree not far from here, there lived a family of grey squirrels. There was Tom, an only squirrel, and his mum and dad. Like all squirrels, they lived in a drey. A drey is a nest of twigs and leaves, all wrapped together with long strands of grass. Inside is lined with a thick layer of moss that helps keep the squirrels lovely and warm when they’re snuggled up together on those long cold winter nights. They had lived in this drey all their lives. It had been built by their ancestors many years ago and there had been squirrels living in it for as long as any squirrel could remember…Although it was old, it kept out the wind and the rain and was a perfect home for any squirrel.  One beautifully sunny day, Tom and his mum were out...

  How does the Hedgehog cross the road?   By David Binelli ©2022 DM Binelli. All Rights Reserved                    2963 words     Horace was a young hedgehog that lived on the edge of the Oak Applewood not far from here. He had lived there all his life. Every day was pretty much the same but he liked that. You see hedgehogs are a bit old fashioned…I don’t mean that in a bad way, just that they like things to stay the same…they don’t care much for change. Every night he would wake as usual at sunset, have breakfast…you can still have breakfast on an evening if you are someone that sleeps during the day and comes awake at night…. and then take a slow walk across the fields, which were only about a hundred metres or so, to his favourite place….a large allotment. Just in case you don’t know what an allotment is it’s a piece of land that humans use to grow veget...