"Don't we live in exciting times? Time was when you could go for a walk in the country and see nothing more violent than a spider chewing a fly. All of a sudden the countryside seems to be swarming with predators. Round here a beetle can't die without a couple of Red Kites fluttering over the corpse. My chickens run the gauntlet of Foxes, Minks and Buzzards, not to mention at least three cats."