COVER STORY: SOFTBALLS
SPRING is round the corner. When I wrote this a few weeks prior to publication, the wild birds were singing and some were looking at nest-sites in my garden. Yet it hadn't been long since central and northern England had received 48 hours’ worth of heavy snow. Wales and Scotland were affected, too, just to show us that we weren't there yet in terms of pairing our birds up and putting them outside.
With rough weather and flooding around the UK, an increase of rats has brought havoc forstock to overnight rat attacks.
