bothered
11 Aug 2006, 08:47am
Prologue.
Around a year ago I was waiting outside school to pick up youngest son, a female drove past and clobbered my wing mirror. Some epoxy resin seemed to fix it.
Adventure.
Yesterday we went to Knowsley Safari Park. It's a five mile drive around paddocks filled with various animals, Deer, Buffalo, Lions, Rhinos etc. We trundled round going 'Awww' at the baby spotted Deer and 'look at the size of that one' at the Camels and Buffalo. A large white Rhino walked past within feet of the car with her baby following, a herd of something with huge horns blocked the road for twenty minutes, an Emu stood by the wifes window staring in with a very strange look in it's eye, a Lion brushed along the car and made wife scream with delight, I think it was delight. An excellent day.
Then there's the Baboon enclosure which they laughing call 'monkey world'. There is a sign outside Monkey World, it says 'Monkeys can damage your car' and offers a car friendly route around where the hairy beasts stay behind the fence. Of course the kids wanted to go through the Baboons didn't they? My how we laughed at all the windscreen wiper blades strewn across the road and chuckled at the antics of over one hundred Baboons doing their bit to boost trade at MotorLand. They were ripping number plates off and eating Aerials. We ended up with a bunch of them bouncing on the roof and running along the sides, how do they do that? Then one decided my 'repaired' mirror would make a perfect perch on which to survey the other Baboons from, until it collapsed under it's weight. The kids were loving it, a car in front of us had no rear number plate and one wiper stuck in the air all twisted like some form of new Aerial design, a bunch of Baboons sat back on his roof regarding their world with all the smugness of creatures that know they are untouchable.
Somebody should let one of the Lions in just to keep them on their toes.
A great day out though, must do it again soon.
Around a year ago I was waiting outside school to pick up youngest son, a female drove past and clobbered my wing mirror. Some epoxy resin seemed to fix it.
Adventure.
Yesterday we went to Knowsley Safari Park. It's a five mile drive around paddocks filled with various animals, Deer, Buffalo, Lions, Rhinos etc. We trundled round going 'Awww' at the baby spotted Deer and 'look at the size of that one' at the Camels and Buffalo. A large white Rhino walked past within feet of the car with her baby following, a herd of something with huge horns blocked the road for twenty minutes, an Emu stood by the wifes window staring in with a very strange look in it's eye, a Lion brushed along the car and made wife scream with delight, I think it was delight. An excellent day.
Then there's the Baboon enclosure which they laughing call 'monkey world'. There is a sign outside Monkey World, it says 'Monkeys can damage your car' and offers a car friendly route around where the hairy beasts stay behind the fence. Of course the kids wanted to go through the Baboons didn't they? My how we laughed at all the windscreen wiper blades strewn across the road and chuckled at the antics of over one hundred Baboons doing their bit to boost trade at MotorLand. They were ripping number plates off and eating Aerials. We ended up with a bunch of them bouncing on the roof and running along the sides, how do they do that? Then one decided my 'repaired' mirror would make a perfect perch on which to survey the other Baboons from, until it collapsed under it's weight. The kids were loving it, a car in front of us had no rear number plate and one wiper stuck in the air all twisted like some form of new Aerial design, a bunch of Baboons sat back on his roof regarding their world with all the smugness of creatures that know they are untouchable.
Somebody should let one of the Lions in just to keep them on their toes.
A great day out though, must do it again soon.