{"id":115516,"date":"2020-04-09T11:30:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T04:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-a-gang-of-outlaws-roam-the-garden\/"},"modified":"2020-04-09T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T05:14:09","slug":"country-diary-a-gang-of-outlaws-roam-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-a-gang-of-outlaws-roam-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: a gang of outlaws roam the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWenlock Edge, Shropshire: The robin, bee-fly and other anarchic creatures enact their Wild West dramas of the soil\u201cIn some lonesome shadows she will greet ya \/ Billy, you\u2019re so far away from home,\u201d sang Bob Dylan, and Billy the Kid rises from the grave in our back garden. Scuffing the soil in the shadow of a flowering currant, a tiny human shape catches my daughter\u2019s eye. She picks it up and rubs the subterranean years off to discover a little brass figurine, an inch or so tall, of Billy the Kid. His rifle is broken but his cocky pose and battered sugar-loaf hat are as distinctive as the 1880s photograph taken not long before he was shot dead aged 21. How he got here goodness knows, but Billy shines in bright spring sunshine.He may be far from home but he\u2019s not the only outlaw in this garden. Watching from the hedge is Robin Redbreast; as quixotic a mix of charm and violence as Billy, Robin is a mythic creature loved by the people, too. He cocks his head to watch everything we do. He has no fear of us. We are, after all, only substitutes for wild pigs rooting through the earth; he waits for a fork to turn up the real treasure in the soil \u2013 worms. \u201cWho killed Cock Robin?\u201d asks the 18th-century murder rhyme. \u201cWho saw him die? \/ I, said the Fly \/ with my little eye.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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