I have a bear

22 August 2008

A bare what? Arf, arf. No, seriously, I think there’s a bear living at the end of the garden in my vegetable patch.

I can hear you hmm-ing from here, so let me explain. This year’s sweetcorn is rubbish. I thought it was just down to shitty seed that had rotted, but then last year’s great seed didn’t do bugger all either. Then one of the few plants that had made it through the soil to daylight was bent over and then later chewed off.

Then I found one of my onions pulled from the soil and left lying on the ground out of line. Like my mediocre onions didn’t have enough to moan about. Like the nettles and weeds that grow exactly where they’re attempting to grow, for example.

I pushed the onion back into the ground in line with the rest of the row. I didn’t expect it to grow any more, because, well, that would be too helpful of it. But then a few days later, when I went back down to the patch to swear at the vegetables, I found the onion back out of line, lying on the bare soil.

Something had moved it. I believe it was a bear.

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4 Responses to “I have a bear”

kirsty
23rd August 2008 @ 12:36 am

You’d better be careful if you go down to the woods today. You might get a big surprise.

Congratulations to the honeymooners!!

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Becca
23rd August 2008 @ 1:29 am

the question is, was it mama bear, papa bear or baby bear?

If only they had eaten the onion then you could track them down with an Onion Breath Detector.

Actually, I don’t even know if those exsist. They should, though.

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Rayne
23rd August 2008 @ 2:02 am

A bear? There are bears in England? Oh, wait! Of course there are bears in England. What was I thinking? Are you sure it isn’t a badger? I don’t think a bear would be so polite.

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Thursday
23rd August 2008 @ 8:42 am

I’d guess a badger.

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