La huida

Errol attempts to escape from the garden.
I watched him:
- climb up the sacks of compost blocking the gate
- fall off onto his back
- right himself after a creating a complicated rocking motion and swivelling the legs on one side through 90 degrees
- climb the sacks again
- push against them with back legs while hanging onto gate and topple them over
- pull at the mesh covering the metal bars with claws and mouth
- lift the edge of the mesh slightly and insert corner of shell in
- inch sideways through the tiny gap
- encourage two of the other tortoises to do the same while he held it open
- leg it across the garden next door.

They were all dragged back and given extra lettuce. I think it was a mass protest about breakfast being late today. The grasshopper (now gone) was much less trouble.