The noise of the rain woke me in the small
hours, and I then la in pain for an hour or so desperately trying to hold off
getting up for the loo. I finally gave up at 5am, then went back to bed and
slept for two hours. I say “slept”; “nightmared” might have been a better
description. I seem to have so many vivid dreams these days. Perhaps I’m going
a bit madder than usual?
Over
brekkie I spent a few minutes on the astro club’s website. It needs tweaking from
time to time. And with that tweaked we drove round to collect "Daddy’s
Little Angel TM" and "Stormageddon - Bringer of
Destruction TM" and we then made our way out to Wingham
Wildlife Park where we met the rest of our party. Eight bigguns and two
littluns had a rather good wander round. We started off with the big turtles (otters), pink ducks (flamingos) and dogs with hats (stags) and moved on looking at
crocingdiles, pontipines and ra-ras. (It is
just possible that my smallest grandchild could improve his large vertebrate recognition
skills)
They had
a rather good dinosaur exhibition; it terrified "Stormageddon - Bringer
of Destruction TM". We had to leave it. Mind you the nice
lady giving talks about the big cats was really good. And I did laugh when a
passing peacock stole one of our group’s sandwiches out of her hand.
I was
especially impressed with the new chimpanzee enclosure. The chimps haven’t
arrived yet, but their enclosure is probably the best animal enclosure I’ve
ever seen in any zoo. I want to go back to see it when the chimps have arrived.
The
weather was against us; it was exactly as it had been forecast. Heavy rain
showers all day. The weather would go from sunshine to torrential rain and back
again within minutes. But we made the most of it.
I
took several photos whilst we were at the zoo. If any of my loyal readers
are looking for a day out I can thoroughly recommend Wingham Wildlife Park. We
were there for five hours today and didn’t see all of the animals.
We went back to "Daddy’s Little Angel TM"’s
flat where the littlun’s birthday presents were unwrapped (and I had a little sleep). We had beans on toast for dinner, then "er
indoors TM" went off to the Saturday film night. I was
tempted to go along, but I would only sleep through whatever film was being
shown, so I slept in front of my own telly instead…
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