The Good Life: The great mystery animal hunt after spooky encounter
I‘m not sure what we would have done if we had found the mystery beast.
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I‘m not sure what we would have done if we had found the mystery beast.
I'm deep inside the Forest of Dean – a former royal hunting ground in Herefordshire popular with the Tudors – in search of watery wildlife. It's a crisp April morning and the sky is piercingly blue. Ancient oaks cloaked in ivy and moss seem sprung from a fairytale. The forest floor is blanketed in bluebells and dog's mercury. Cherry blossom falls silently like snow. I stop to munch on a lilac cuckooflower – affectionately known as 'lady's smock' – which has the same fiery flavour as wasabi. Having recently relocated from North Africa, blackcaps – the nig...
Daily traffic has created patches of brown ooze that gumboots, chickens and hearts sinks.