Extinction rebellion
Last Christmas I didn’t buy any greetings cards. Instead, I came up with the wheeze of creating home-made affairs with a hand-drawn picture by my nine-year-old son. After a family meeting it was agreed that “reindeer in a landscape” would be the perfect subject for Negus junior’s artistic efforts. My wife and I left him to his art while we opened a bottle of sherry.
A few festive glasses later we returned to survey his work. The beast he revealed looked markedly unreindeer-like. While a reindeer’s legs are stolidly stumpy, like a cloven-footed Shetland pony, this animal had limbs like a borzoi. Reindeer are short coupled, yet this brute stood over the ground like a drum horse. The
