In tradition with everyone else, I'll make this a three parter for the three places we visited.
I'm quite sure that I can easily match the culture of Jake's report, the tension of Ciall's and pointlessness of Taylor's
Although probably not to be honest.
So, we had a wholesome family weekend with lots to keep us going over the five days I had at home.
First outing of the weekend was to the lovely little village of Eccleshall, it's where Jeremy Clarkson told people to drive to avoid the speed cameras on the A34
There's a garden centre just outside and it has an Animal Sanctuary attached to the back. There's also a miniature railway, but sadly for people expecting to see track (and sadly for Peter Gibbons), it wasn't running so no photos.
In fact, the day was wet and I took very few photos due to the wetness and darkness. We did have a lovely picnic of Graze proportions before the heavens opened though.
A good start to any trip report is a picture of a rabbit. So I'd best do it!
These were of the giant variety. What isn't clear is that it's in a cheaply made Chinese Pagoda - human sized. Soon after it finished that medicine ball sized cabbage, it came after our nibbles. We legged it to the Guinea Pigs.
I don't know if I've ever voiced my opinions on Guinea Pigs, but they are clearly the most rubbish animal ever. They're not even particularly good eating. They just jump and go "eep". Pointless. I don;t even want to show this photo, but I don't have many:
That's it for domestic animals. Everything else is relatively exotic... Or an owl. We'd built this up to Maxi-Minor_Furie as a kind of jungle adventure, so see the Amazonian animals he watches on "Go Diego Go!"
"There are Pumas and Kinkajous!" we promised. Sadly, both were hidden away out of the rain. There was a monkey though - hurrah! It ate fruit at us aggressively. He said to tell Martyn it's him that has been stealing his post!
The centre has the weirdest looking owl I've ever seen. Obviously all owls remind you of Will, but this one particularly so. I think it was the sheepish way it kept looking at its feet and thinking "I wish I hadn't let my mum choose my shoes". It was also just odd looking, a bit like a baby penguin without any cuteness.
Of course, there ere real owls - this one went "whoot" a lot at MMF, who was chuffed by the owl-like attention!
Plus, they had mysterious ghost owls! Ooooooh!
Before we left to play on the park (in the wet), I took a photo of a sleeping Lynx. It's a poor photo, but it IS kind of very vaguely coaster related.
It's called Kahn! Hurrah!
That's it for the moment. Coming up when I can next be bothered are the sights and sounds (minus the sounds) of the lovely Widnes, Cheshire!
I'm quite sure that I can easily match the culture of Jake's report, the tension of Ciall's and pointlessness of Taylor's
Although probably not to be honest.
So, we had a wholesome family weekend with lots to keep us going over the five days I had at home.
First outing of the weekend was to the lovely little village of Eccleshall, it's where Jeremy Clarkson told people to drive to avoid the speed cameras on the A34
There's a garden centre just outside and it has an Animal Sanctuary attached to the back. There's also a miniature railway, but sadly for people expecting to see track (and sadly for Peter Gibbons), it wasn't running so no photos.
In fact, the day was wet and I took very few photos due to the wetness and darkness. We did have a lovely picnic of Graze proportions before the heavens opened though.
A good start to any trip report is a picture of a rabbit. So I'd best do it!
These were of the giant variety. What isn't clear is that it's in a cheaply made Chinese Pagoda - human sized. Soon after it finished that medicine ball sized cabbage, it came after our nibbles. We legged it to the Guinea Pigs.
I don't know if I've ever voiced my opinions on Guinea Pigs, but they are clearly the most rubbish animal ever. They're not even particularly good eating. They just jump and go "eep". Pointless. I don;t even want to show this photo, but I don't have many:
That's it for domestic animals. Everything else is relatively exotic... Or an owl. We'd built this up to Maxi-Minor_Furie as a kind of jungle adventure, so see the Amazonian animals he watches on "Go Diego Go!"
"There are Pumas and Kinkajous!" we promised. Sadly, both were hidden away out of the rain. There was a monkey though - hurrah! It ate fruit at us aggressively. He said to tell Martyn it's him that has been stealing his post!
The centre has the weirdest looking owl I've ever seen. Obviously all owls remind you of Will, but this one particularly so. I think it was the sheepish way it kept looking at its feet and thinking "I wish I hadn't let my mum choose my shoes". It was also just odd looking, a bit like a baby penguin without any cuteness.
Of course, there ere real owls - this one went "whoot" a lot at MMF, who was chuffed by the owl-like attention!
Plus, they had mysterious ghost owls! Ooooooh!
Before we left to play on the park (in the wet), I took a photo of a sleeping Lynx. It's a poor photo, but it IS kind of very vaguely coaster related.
It's called Kahn! Hurrah!
That's it for the moment. Coming up when I can next be bothered are the sights and sounds (minus the sounds) of the lovely Widnes, Cheshire!
