"Backyard Self Sufficiency" by Jackie French

Since a Bandicoot is an animal in Oz, is there a "furtle" animal in the UK? A furry turtle maybe??

I imagine the Bandicoot must rob the spuds by digging them up. The only thing that has dug my tatties up in the past is a Rowland.

A 'rat' hasn't got the same resonance as a Bandicoot though.

Bandicoots look like long-nosed rats, and are named after a type of Indian rat - I had to look them up, as my knowledge of marsupials is a bit patchy (and I never played Crash Bandicoot). Not as cute as quokkas, but probably a lot more common!