Yet, such is the parlous state of the red squirrel population in this country, it occurred to his mum and I that in his first decade on the planet, he’d not seen his favourite, a red squirrel, in the flesh. So, for his 10th birthday, we set out to change all of that, and it seemed fitting that for his 10th birthday we were off to visit a species native to these shores not for 10 years but for some 10,000 years. So, a mere hop, skip and a jump from the northern boundary of the best county in... Read this story
