“Have you got a panda?”
“Er…, no.” I replied.
(Between you and me, I thought he was referring to B. who has black patches over both eyes.)
Then I woke up…
This was an excellent question from a 4 year old guest, because there is a bamboo pit at the bottom of our garden.
Not just your ornamental type of bamboo. It grows over 30 metres and new shoots set rapidly.
I kept an eye on one shoot which grew from 5 centimetres to 3 metres in one summer!
“There is a badger there, though.”
“What’s that?”
“Well, it’s black and white – just like a panda, but it’s nocturnal so you probably won’t see it.”
“What does nocturnal mean?”
This boy is going to go far.
Intelligent questions from an enquiring mind.
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He’d do it too – and eat a bamboo shoot to make it all the more authentic!
Ah how sweet and what an imagination :-)
I want to adopt him. And the dog.
That is one cutie!!
Oh how I would have loved to bake him a loaf of panda bread!
Lol, that is sweet. I love all of that Bamboo…..that’s beautiful.
Your dog is gorgeous!!
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Very cute post. The pup is cute too :)
Many thanks for visiting. I love your stories … just a little kid looking for bedtime stories and you spin some sweet ones.
Hi Sally! Smart boy indeed… great questions. I love bamboo.. they’re great for getting the olives off the top branches too!:) Hope you’re doing well.
When I was little, my mother used to always tell me to watch out for pandas in bamboo. Clearly this boy’s mother is of the same cast of mind.
I love bamboo, it’s great that you grow it so abundantly. Whenever I take my little boy to the Orto Botanico, we always go searching for pandas in the bamboo forest. We haven’t seen any yet. But I’m showing off my nocturnal badger story next time. Ciao