Meet Digger Mole

Meet Digger Mole© was created and written by Alan Scouse
The illustrations were created by Paul Hawthorn Gill Designs
Meet Digger Mole© is published by Beaver Publishing at Smashwords

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Go to Digger Mole's website at www.diggermole.net

Chapter One - Meet Digger Mole

Digby is a lovable, kind, and very clever mole

He comes from a long line of moles who have lived in the New Forest in Hampshire for years.

Great Great Great Grandfather Percy Mole and his family were some of the first moles to try and live above ground, but that’s another story.

Digby known as ‘Digger’ to his friends lives with his family in a small copse known as Molehampton.

It is a small wooded area in Walhampton.

From Lymington travel to the Isle of Wight Ferry and you are sure to find it.

Chapter Two - Spring in the forest

Digby loves living beneath the forest and has learned how to handle each season as it comes.

In the Spring he enjoys seeing the wonder of nature unfold.

The plants come into bud after their long winters slumber.

The newborn birds and animals really make the forest come alive again, and all who live in the forest sense a feeling of a fresh beginning.

The days start to become warmer, and the evenings longer and lighter.

Chapter Three - Summer in the forest

The Summer months follow the Spring.

The weather is kinder and the days are much warmer.

The trees and hedgerows are in full bloom and offer much food, with berries and nuts and fruit all to be enjoyed by the various animals and birds.

Digger always enjoys the Summer season the most, and it was during the summer that Digger first met ‘Molly’ mole and it was love at first sight.

Molly loved Digger's sense of fun.

Digger loved Molly's soft furry coat and her wonderful cooking.

Chapter Four - Autumn in the forest

Autumn follows the Summer and the weather starts to cool down.

The leaves turn a golden brown and eventually fall from the trees, leaving a copper coloured carpet all over the forest floor.

Animals such as the squirrels start to store food in readiness for the winter months ahead.

Digger mole always makes sure Molly's cupboards are well stocked with food, at this time.

Chapter Five - Winter in the Forest

Eventually Winter arrives and the forest starts to look quite bare.

Most of the trees have lost their leaves.

Some of the birds have left the forest to fly to warmer countries.

The smaller animals have dug deep underground and are preparing for a long winters sleep.

The animals still on the surface have to search harder for food.

If the weather gets really bad and snow falls heavily, then the Foresters start to bring out food for them.

Chapter Six - Digger brings their food home

No food is brought out for moles.
Digger had learned this a long time ago, so he, like the squirrels are now living off the food collected and stored in the autumn.

Over the past few years Digger and Molly have produced three lovely younger moles, but as Mother Molly says they grow up far to quickly.

Digger and Molly are very proud of their family.

Lets meet them.

Chapter Seven - Meet Molly Mole

Mother Molly is a homely mole, she likes nothing more than to be in her kitchen, making wholesome food for her family.

She likes to keep her home clean and tidy, but with three young moles to look after, sometimes it does get a little messy.

Molly helps Digger with his many ideas and schemes he comes up with and life is never dull or boring in this home.

Chapter Eight - Meet Melanie Mole

The oldest of Digger and Mollys children is Melanie.

Melanie prefers to be called ‘Mel’ she is Digger and Molly’s only daughter and regularly gets spoiled.

Melanie hates being clean and tidy and likes nothing more than getting dirty.

She loves to run through the forest and jump in every puddle she can find.

Mel spends most of her day with her best friend, a badger called Dave.

Chapter Nine - Meet Dapper Mole

The next mole born was Dapper.

Dapper is extremely fussy and unlike Mel, he hates getting dirty or muddy.

He is forever washing himself, and takes pride in his appearance.

His lovely grey velvety coat is well groomed and he makes sure there is not a hair out of place.

Dapper likes to wear his bowties of which he has many.

Chapter Ten - Meet Dinky Mole

The youngest of Digby and Molly’s children is Dinky mole.

Dinky was born small, and has not grown very much.

He is named Dinky because he is small even by mole standards.

He is not quite as fussy as his older brother Dapper.

However Dinky does love to explore the woods and has many friends scattered throughout the forest.

He loves to use tunnels other moles have dug, and go on long adventures.

Dinky never stops exploring.

Chapter Eleven - The Moles all together

Digger, Molly, Mel, Dapper and Dinky live deep under the forest
protected by the long burrows they have dug.

They have a lovely home, and are safe and warm.

Molly is a loving mother, and Digger a protective father.

Digger supplies the food. Molly prepares and cooks it.

Mel helps in the kitchen, and she is becoming a good cook just like her Mum.

Dapper cleans and tidies up and enjoys helping his Dad.

Dinky through his many friends knows exactly what is going on in the forest.

Chapter Twelve - The Moles home

The five moles are a close family.

Like all moles they spend a lot of their time underground but do surface when not too many people are around.

There is a small garden in Molehampton in which they love to visit and relax as only moles can.

They have built a woodland bar and enjoy glasses of cool lemonade before they disappear back underground.

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Follow all of the Moles' news and adventures.
Go to Digger Mole's website at www.diggermole.net