I really liked the story, so imaginative. Maybe you have a garden full of hedges clipped into shapes yourself, to have come up with such a notion.
Robert reminded me of a young Harry Potter eagerly beginning his time at the academy of dark arts.
I shall never look at a hedge or shrub clipped to within an inch of it’s life, the same again.
There is an elephant, trunk raised high in our neighbourhood , I wonder if a zoo is missing one.
Well done
Cheers Sue

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