Stag steals vegetables A stag has taken to coming into the village of Dorres in Cerdagne and helping himself to the produce in the local vegetable gardens. He’s been coming in for 2 or 3 years and is getting bolder and bolder. At first he just raided plots on the outskirts, now he comes into the centre of the village in broad daylight and fences have been built to keep him out. He takes off whenever anyone tries to approach him.

Our field, which hubby had been carefully tending and which had started to resemble a crown bowling green looked as if a drunk ploughboy on steroids had been let loose on it all night. As well as brown ridges all across the field, the drystone walls which bordered the garden had been knocked down.

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