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Off The Branch


A branch somewhere in a wood - anywhere; a bunch of mainly avian characters come and go, from the massive but silent Great Uncle Eagle Owl to the directionally-challenged Cousin Jed.  Central to this feathered traffic is Little Owl, a small but belligerent bird who never seems to leave the branch. 

All life is here, from inside traders and dodgy woodland lawyers, to over-enthusiastic fitness instructors and power-tool enthusiasts.  You couldn’t make this stuff up – but then, fortunately, someone did.

 
 

 

Meet The Characters

 

 

Little Owl

Short tempered, irascible, grumpy – and that’s his good side: regards finding food as a necessary but unwelcome chore: deals in woodland commodities - usually disastrously: able to see the downside of every situation – even when there isn’t one.


Cousin Jed

Little Owl’s wing man: always available in a crisis to make the situation worse: prolific traveller with a legendary ability to get lost on a bird table: appears in a variety of guises as Joe Lawyer, Joe Agent and Joe anything else to misrepresent Little Owl’s (misguided) interests.


Freida

Little Owl’s wing man: always available in a crisis to make the situation worse: prolific traveller with a legendary ability to get lost on a bird table: appears in a variety of guises as Joe Lawyer, Joe Agent and Joe anything else to misrepresent Little Owl’s (misguided) interests.


The Ant Patrol

Crack platoon of army ants, always on manoeuvres: these guys are serious operators: they take on anything as long as it’s bigger than they are: once known to skeletonise a Land Rover in fifteen minutes.


Great Uncle Eagle Owl

Little Owl’s massive and ancient relative: he’s big – very big, so big in fact, he never entirely fits into the frame: a bird of very few words, he just exudes wise: held in great esteem by the rest of the wood but, since he never says anything, no-one is quite sure why.


Errol the Woodpecker

Little Owl’s irritating and noisy next-door neighbour: makes a power drill look like a hand whisk: constantly at war with The Ant Patrol, his motto is ‘a retractable tongue goes a long way…’