Creatures

[saintstim]

Stuck on a couple.
Both answers are related to creatures in some way.
The B of the ABC club sounds like an "early" warning system (7,9.)
Who was Sarabandos friend? (7)
Thanks for any help.

[mallyh]

oh this is driving me bonkers !!!!!! lol

[scorpiojo]

Something breakfast? (Brake fast)

[TheFrogman]

The first is Richard Cockerill, the Leicester hooker of the 1990s when the Tigers wore letters instead of numbers on their shirts.

The second is I think Bragoon ,the squirrel friend of Sarobando in Brian Jacques' 'Loamhedge'.

[mallyh]

all i can think of is ? cockerels

[mallyh]

i've looked everywhere for sarabandos .well done the Frogman :-)

[Prudie]

yes that's impressive Frogman ;-) Although it might have helped the rest of us if sarobando had been spelt correctly.

[mallyh]

bragoon is an otter friend of sarabandos the squirrel

[maurice]

Thank God someone's found both at last!

[scorpiojo]

And I was so close...lol

[mallyh]

lol coffee time x

[scorpiojo]

:)

[TheFrogman]

...I wish I could say that I knew all about Sarabando and Bragoon but Mr Toad and Jeremy Fisher were more my thing...

The spelling Sarabando is right (my error) - he's known as Saro for short (my excuse).

[Prudie]

I'm not so sure. If you google sarabando you get nothing except linkedin and FB references to unknown people. If you google sarobando your answer comes up straightaway.
http://redwall.wikia.com/wiki/Sarobando

[TheFrogman]

Hmm, looking at 'Loamhedge' on Google Books, in chapter 9 we have:

"'They're back! It's Bragoon and Saramando! They're back!'"

and a page or two further on we get:

"'I want to get a closer dekko at the bold blinkin' Bragoon and the startlin' Saromando'"

Looks like the author wasn't quite clear on this one, so what chance have we got?

[mallyh]

if you google loamhedge characters it explains who is what animal . lol

[saintstim]

Many thanks everyone. I was well and truly bamboozled.
I did spell sarabando as it was in the quiz but it looks as though the setter got it wrong.
Cheers

[sjayne]

why Richard Cockerill? What has he to do with ABC or early warning system?