Hedgehog Headless Cherub

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3 June 2020 at 22.49

After seeing the hedgehog a few nights ago I've started taking a bowl of the day's rejected catfood and putting it up by the bower and the pond. It is always gone by morning, licked clean yesterday.   

This evening as I was coming back towards the house with 3 captured snail who should come under the back gate but the hedgehog.  It stopped and looked at me. I said hello, put the snails covered up in the trug so they can't get away, and came back in.   

Not sure if it was the same one as last time.

Fay  Given the choice of cat food or snails, you might find the snails still there...

Bentonbag  I'm hoping it gets the slugs and snails I don't catch.

Fay  It’s useful to put out a shallow bowl of fresh water for them in dry weather. 

He (or she) will pop in regularly if they know where to find food and water.

Bentonbag  Frog pond #1 and #2 and an old grill pan by the garage.  Somebody keeps knocking Bruce-the-headless-cherub into the pond.  I've made a ramp out of an old broken chimney pot so creatures can get safely down to (and out of) the water.

Fay  That might be the hog - they’re a bit clumsy.

Mrs Walker  Ben, I expect there's a story behind why your cherub is headless - and why he's called Bruce?!

Bentonbag  He's named after the bloke who was head of Woodlawn.  Once when we were sorting out stuff for a Summer Fair a terracotta cherub fell out of his packaging and knocked his head off.  As there's no way we could have sold him, I brought him home, superglued the head back on and sat him next to the pond.  Sometimes he goes a funny colour (mould? slimemould?) but it always stops at the neck so he looks as if he's wearing a skintight onesie.

Woolerwoman  I've got several of those large plant pot saucers around with water in and keep them clean and fresh. The hedgehogs use them regularly and birds use them as a bath!

Mr Mull  Rejected cat food - is one of your chaps getting fussy about their food?

Bentonbag  Always have done, it used to go on the bird table - magpies and starlings love it.