Panda

I'm not going to pretend there's a panda living in the trees down the road or munching bamboo at the bottom of the garden. I won't even suggest that I've seen pandas while I was walking the dog. Of course there are no pandas where I live and we don't keep them in the house. But I did meet one on his own in the local pub. He hadn't drunk as much as I had and refused the offer of a lift back home which, in hindsight, was a wise choice, as they are an endangered species even without my help!

I do remember seeing pandas in a zoo in Chengdu and I remember how sad they looked in their concrete compounds, but not as sad as the skins in the gift shop!