Friday, February 17, 2017

A collective R.I.P.

Feeling sad at the moment.

We have kept rabbits for at least 15 years now. Pets for the children initially, but always family pets in reality; and it is we, not our children who have elected to keep having a couple of rabbits around. Until this week. We have always put them out in a run on the back lawn during the day. On Wednesday Mrs Darce arrived home and found an empty run. At first, it wasn't clear what had happened, we wondered if a person might have taken them. There was evidence something had lifted the wire at one end but the hole there didn't seem big enough to be relevant. But Whisper and Hector were nowhere to be seen. We looked around but found nothing. Later that night I was restless and went out with the torch to have another look around the garden, and it was then I found both of them – buried separately. A fox must have got them (at least we assume it was a fox). It seems foxes will do this, kill and then bury in a cache, possibly to return later. I retrieved them and we gave them a proper burial yesterday. Rabbits do not like to be alone. Whisper was an old lady and after her old partner died last year we got a new mate for her. Hector was only young. Anyway, they are together again now.

It is strange, the rabbits we have kept have never been house rabbits but right now the house seems so empty and quiet . This is the end of an era for us, we have decided there will be no more rabbits.


I learnt this week of the death of two jazz artists – Al Jarreau and Barbara Carroll R.I.P. I originally became aware of them as a result of my love of jazz-funk in the late Seventies . It prompted me to play the albums you see above for the first time in quite a few years, and make me wonder why I've ignored them for so long. The names from our youth continue to fall.




For Whisper and Hector R.I.P.

3 comments:

C said...

So sorry to hear about the rabbits, very sad. RIP Whisper and Hector, and of course Al and Barbara.

drew said...

I can't abide foxes. When I was a teenager a fox killed my cat Lucy and ever since I have had a thing about then. Not that I approve of hunting them or the like but when I hear of people feeling them it annoys me. Sorry to hear about the rabbits.

Good to have you back Darcy, I have never really listened to Al Jarreau before.

Ravel said...

I understand very well the idea of «no rabbits anymore»...
Thanks for pointing out Ms Carroll death. I adore her playing and was amazed to still hear her play marvelously in the last years...