Tuesday, 16 August 2011

Enter the Bunny!

There was a time when there were no bunnies. Yes, once upon a time the world had only cats and dogs, mice and hamsters, chickens and ducks, and all the other creatures that I haven't got time to name here. But there wasn't a single rabbit.

Then one day- a bright sunny day with lots of bright colours in it like when you lose all your brightly coloured marbles out of the corner of your head and the world seems a little fuzzy until you take the happy pills again- one day, the Bunnies arrived.

It was in a shaft of sunlight that they descended. There was barely a muffle or raised eye brow from the creatures who saw them descend but suddenly they were there.

They immediately started digging. They needed a network of tunnels to survive in this hostile new world. Every now and then they would stop and take a bite of the new world. They particularly liked the short green shoots that seemed to be everywhere. They also liked a number of other things, certain green leaves tasted nice, as did some of the things they found attached to the green things but hidden underground.

So, once the Bunnies were settled in their network of tunnels they began their task of observing this new world. They observed many of the creatures that they saw but were intrigued by one creature in particular. This was the creature they learned to call Hoomuns. They were unlike any other creature as they lived in strange shaped burrows they built for themselves with big machines. The Bunnies learned to call these brick-burrows as their translater couldn't quite get the grasp of what the Hoomuns called them- howsiz, fflatz, apartimunts- they seemed to have many names for these boxes they lived in.

The Bunnies decided these Hoomuns were worth observing more than any others and so their project began. The extracts and drawings you will see posted here are from the scientific research of The Wild Bunnies of Everywhere.

Oh, and 'why the name?' I hear you ask. Well, they are wild, they are bunnies and they are everywhere. You didn't think it would be anything more complicated than that did you?