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Long life

Have I inadvertently killed my friend’s tortoises?

Let’s hope and pray they are still hibernating

11 April 2015

9:00 AM

11 April 2015

9:00 AM

It’s April. It’s spring. The daffodils and the cowslips are in flower. The birds are chirping merrily. But where are the tortoises? There were two of them, a big one called Alice and a small one called Gertrude. They have been in my care since last summer when a friend, their owner, moved from her London house, which had a garden, into a flat nearby, which hadn’t.

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