Damien Enright: Quasi-camping with family in Czech countryside

I'm intrigued that edible dormice may share this very barn, my son’s workshop in South Bohemia in the Czech Republic, where I have temporarily set up a desk. I’d love to see one but they don’t stir out of their dormouse dormitories until the middle of the night and then only to take to the nearby treetops where they forage.

Perhaps I could find a nest and with my two grandsons, aged 11 and six, my two sons and their wives, observe them and even photograph them as they snore through yet another beautiful summer day.