FOX hunting is a sport with significant public relations issues, something that might conjure visions of the idle rich blowing brass horns, galloping obliviously across their properties (and others') in search of tiny woodland creatures to be torn to shreds.
This leaves room for the tiny Woodland Colony to expand its territory and thrive, and so the epic struggle continues, as it has for thousands of years.The tale within a tale is an astonishing literary achievement; nobody but Mr Wilson could have written it, and those who read it will tread lightly in the forest, at least for a while.
In the spirit of not wanting to watch tiny woodland creatures get strangled, we simply cannot continue to point cameras at this woman.
This tiny woodland bird has had little other impact on literature, although it is the subject of Charles Tennyson Turner's short poem, "The Gold-crested Wren", first published in 1868.
Standing in front of their rural Alabama church, just outside a tiny town called Woodland (population 192), two white women in their 50s are making small talk while they wait for their husbands after evening service.
So instead, this autumn I am going to embrace the bottom of the garden for what it is – a tiny slice of a woodland – and plant all sorts of lovely woodland things; by the time I have finished it will be a place to sit and read, though not in the rain.
I remember reading the very beautifully illustrated The Golden Book of Fairy Tales, the cover of which featured a huge head of a young girl as she peers dreamily at a tiny elf and some small woodland animals having a tea party.
I travelled to Maentwrog, a tiny village in Snowdonia, to visit two neighbouring woodlands, Llennyrch and Coed Felinrhyd (also known as Melenrhyd).
And so we continue along roads fringed with woodland until, quite suddenly, we roll into a tiny town called Guilford.
