Red's Kingdom

Inspired by the delinquent sparrows, adolescent starlings and industrious blackbirds that are always bustling about so comedically in our garden, I decided I’d give my surplus energies this week to imagining some fledgling borogroves – in response to The Kick-About No.82.

Not the brightest I suspect, and easily startled, these lesser inhabitants of Lewis Carroll’s Tulgey Wood are sociable little things, though sometimes mistaken for flying fish, large moths or those pink and frondy axolotls. Fledgling borogroves don’t so much ‘mimsy’ as hare-about in sudden bursts of inexplicable excitement, before falling over, exhausted, with their legs in the air. Unfortunately, this makes them rather vulnerable to the predations of adult mome raths…