And to this day...

...If you meet Nutkin up a tree,
and ask him a riddle,
He will throw sticks at you
and stamp his feet and scold
and shout...
“Cuck-Cuck-Cuck-Cur-r-r-Cuck-k-k !”

This is my new friend, a cheeky grey squirrel who has built a nest (a ‘drey’ I think it’s called) high up on the cill, in the ivy that has taken over my kitchen window. I like his rustling chutzpah, his Squirrel Nutkinness.