Wedge Wood

I was down at my wood today being  a beautiful frosty day. My latrine is a wooden structure but the door is open to the elements, facing down the wood. I sat there and watched three hen peasants pick their way through the brambles, some twenty yards from me. Then something larger appeared and two fallow hinds followed behind the pheasants. Both animals were very dark coloured, almost black, which might be a colour mutation, but also partly due to their having winter coats. My latrine makes for an excellent animal hide.