Playing God

This little guy was worming his way into oblivion. All there was ahead was more asphalt, to an other side of the street so hopelessly distant that the magpies and seagulls would have put a swift end to his gruelling and pointless odyssey. 

So I picked him up and dropped him in my soft earthy little square of unkept front garden. 

I'm sure that the hedgehog I saw there the other day will thank me for the gesture...