Britain’s only spiny mammal
is not an enamel camel,
doesn’t use a flannel,
and has never sat
as a member
of a disciplinary panel.
So, what is it? you ask.
It is, ‘the hedgehog’,
who hogs hedges,
avoids sledges
and precarious ledges;
and, when on its own,
always asks to be left alone
to do whatever it is
that a hedgehog does.
Why? Well, just because.
Graeme Sandford 