Hedgehog
written by: Nina Taylor
He slips under the fence with hardly a sound
And trundles about, nose to the ground
Sniffing around to see what’s what
Before heading straight to his little house plot
A cosy space and some food is good
On his nightly dalliance in the neighbourhood
He came last year to this very same place
Then disappeared without a trace
Fearing the worst I felt so very sad
Something had happened, something oh so bad
But I guess he was sleeping the long winter through
Because everyone knows that’s what hedgehogs do
And now he’s back, my heart fills with joy
But I still don’t know if he’s a girl or a boy.
I am a mother and grandmother who enjoys writing but usually just for my own pleasure. I was born in Essex but spent many of my adult years in various overseas wherever my husband was working. I studied Sociology originally at University but began teaching English as a Foreign Language while abroad. On our return to the UK I began working in adult education teaching Literacy and Numeracy but always had a passion for Early Years education. As such I retrained and spent a number of years working as an early years practitioner, until I retired in November 2019. I now live in Leicestershire and have two grown up children and two young grandchildren with whom I love to play and read stories to.. During Lockdown I wrote a number of little short stories for them, which i recorded and shared with them just for fun. My first little children's story book Off to the Beach was published by Bumble Bee Books (part of Olympia Publishers) in April 2021. It really was a lockdown project!
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