I was a dreamer when I was a child. One day at school a young, exasperated, teacher asked me a question. I don't know what it was, I didn't realise that she had spoken to me until I heard 'You are never awake in class, we will have to call you dormouse'. It stuck! for the rest of my primary years I was known as 'dormouse'. In my mind I had a picture of a chubby creature sleeping in a teapot at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party.
Over thirty years later I made my first acquaintance with a real dormouse. By then I was beginning to become involved with wildlife and conservation and had been offered the opportunity to train for a dormouse licence with Avon Wildlife Trust. I wouldn't say it was love at first sight, but it was close! I now have my licence and am still amused at just how prophetic that thoughtless remark turned out to be.
oh Gill they are adorable.. how wonderful to work with and for them.
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