Rainbow+Bunny

Sophie’s favourite animals are rabbits, mice, cats and monkeys. During her 2005 Easter break in Cardiff, Sophie and Grandad decided to write a story about ‘Rainbow Bunny’. The Colouful Adventures of Rainbow Bunny On a small island off the coast of Wales there lived a family of rabbits. This is the story of one colourful rabbit called ‘Rainbow Bunny’, and her family and friends. The first question to answer is, Why was this particular rabbit called ‘Rainbow Bunny” ? Why, because she had a fur coat of many colours, of course, The family was rich because, her father, Jasper Rabbit worked in the Skomer branch of the ‘Royal Bank of Rabbits’; Jasper, by the way was black all over. Although most of his cousins are the usual brownies, a few of them were brown and white, and there is a pure white member of the family who lives in the western part of the island. The family came over to the Island with the Norman invaders of Wales. But they are not French but Spanish because the first ancestors came from the Rock of Gibralter. Now they are the gardeners of the Island and like to hear visitors in May and June gasp with amazement when the see the profusion of flowring plants which they find on the cliff tops. Quite literally, the colours have to be seen to be believed. In the early spring there are snowdrops and primroses in sheltered spots, and white scurvy grass, purple violets and blue spring squill on clifftops blasted by gales and drenched by salt spray. Later, on the clifftops, there are banks and cushions of thrift or sea-pink, cascades of white sea campion, prickly thickets of gorse glowing rich yellow and smelling of coconut oil, delicate ox-eye daisies, and prostrate broom on rock faces. Even daffodils survive in some coastal locations, and the sheets of bluebells on Skomer are justly famous. Then in the late summer the heather comes into flower. All these delights are down to Rainbow Bunny and his helpers.