BADGER BLOG - IONOS, our website hosting company, informed us last week that our contract with them expires on Thursday, 8th May.  How quickly time flies !  Sadly, this means that our lovely badger website will be no more :(  

However, to all the many folk who have viewed our website, we hope you enjoyed our pages, learned a little bit about badgers, perhaps gained confidence in how to badger watch successfully.  Or maybe enjoyed the images of this strikingly beautiful creature.  If just one badger is saved because of our website, then all the long hours and hard work it took to build will have been worthwhile.

It's great to know that in 2025, so many young and enthusiastic people are now taking up the reins and looking out for badgers.  It wasn't the case 20 odd years ago.  So it's very reassuring to us badger "oldies", that young people are genuinely committed to protecting badgers and have the youthful energy and stamina to trundle mile upon mile to check badger setts.

For us, well .......  The clock is ticking and our bucket list needs to be ticked before it's too late.  Plans are afoot for an exciting yet daunting new chapter.  All over the world, wild animals are illegally poached, slaughtered and captured for sale in some godforsaken market, so we shall be departing on a long and exciting adventure travelling to far flung corners of the world. First up, Uganda, then on to Tanzania and Botswana, plus any other amazing place which takes our fancy. Still caring for wildlife by volunteering and helping out at wildlife rescues, using our teaching qualifications and experience to raise awareness at schools and orphanages along the way.  Sounds exciting !  Yes it is - very :)

So all that's left to say, is thank you for viewing our website, keep doing what you're doing, keep looking out for badgers.  They really do need your help. 

With very best wishes.  Ta-ra xx