Yesterday, we took the olde worlde 28 double decker to past Farnsfield, sat up front up top like schoolkids, in order to visit White Post Farm.
It's been there for a long time; I remember friends of mine at school having jobs there and that was over 20 years ago, but I've never actually visited it myself until now. It was a glorious day, and the animals put on a show - bossy aggressive spitting llamas, coy alpacas happy to take your grass pellets but not let you pet them, big fat oinkers, and goats a-plenty trampling each other flat to get to your food.
I'm not a big fan of the "petting zoo" concept, but there were plenty of young children delighted to get close to the animals and it this inspires a love of wildlife, and a respect for domesticated animals into their adult lives, this is fine by me.
I think the centre needs a little bit of TLC - a lick of paint and a bit of a tidy up wouldn't go amiss in some of the areas, but I was surprised I enjoyed the day as I did.
And I'm sure my folks will look forward to eating their kangaroo sausages!
It's been there for a long time; I remember friends of mine at school having jobs there and that was over 20 years ago, but I've never actually visited it myself until now. It was a glorious day, and the animals put on a show - bossy aggressive spitting llamas, coy alpacas happy to take your grass pellets but not let you pet them, big fat oinkers, and goats a-plenty trampling each other flat to get to your food.
I'm not a big fan of the "petting zoo" concept, but there were plenty of young children delighted to get close to the animals and it this inspires a love of wildlife, and a respect for domesticated animals into their adult lives, this is fine by me.
I think the centre needs a little bit of TLC - a lick of paint and a bit of a tidy up wouldn't go amiss in some of the areas, but I was surprised I enjoyed the day as I did.
And I'm sure my folks will look forward to eating their kangaroo sausages!
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| Big ugly turkey, fanning his tail constantly for his ladies |
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| Goat mountain, Mussorgsky spent a night there. Didn't he? |
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| Meerkat sentry. No hawks, but plenty of light aircraft for him to report |
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| Chubster meerkat |
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| Enjoy your mealworms chaps! |
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| "Market?" "Meeeeeeerkat!" |
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| Degus |
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| Kissing harvest mice |
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| The world looks better this way up |
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| Green tree python |
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| Cynical looking bearded dragon |
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| Willow. This is a heck of a big snake |
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| Big fat mummy oinker |
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| Bog goat |
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| Alpaca gets fussed over |
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| Wallaby |
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| Hungry goats |
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| "Caw" cried the Rook |
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| Fallow deer |
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| Highland cattle |
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| Goat attack! |
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