Mad As A September Hare

O.K, I know that means I'm six months out but for context I was still seething after yesterday's treatment by my so-called savings provider (see yesterday's blip) and I'd just read a review of a wonderful sounding book about a hare so I just combined them for a blip title!
The little card you can see in my image came with one of my brother's camera magazines and was about how to shoot wildlife but unfortunately by the time I came across it all the instructions had been worn away.
I didn't have access to a wild hare or its natural habitat of open farmland or woodland edges so I had to suffice with the little card, which caught the late afternoon sun perfectly, ensconced in an abandoned slipper next to an old dish cloth and a drinks tray loitering on top of our garden storage box - surely the perfect environment for some wildlife photography!
The review I referred to earlier was for a book called Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton. When lockdown led busy professional Chloe to leave the city and return to the countryside of her childhood, she never expected to find herself a custodian of a newly born hare, a leveret. Yet when she finds the creature abandoned, alone and no bigger than her palm, she is compelled to give it a chance of survival.
She has to bottle feed it to keep it alive but it will go on to live under her roof, lollop around her bedroom at night  drumming on her duvet cover when it wants attention and two years later still run from the field when she calls it and snooze in her house for hours before it goes on to give birth to leverets of its own in her study.
It's the study of an almost improbable bond of trust and the author's intention is to show that it reminds us that the most beautiful experiences, inspiring the most hope, arise when we least expect them. It sounds completely fascinating and I'll definitely be adding it to my ever growing reading pile.