White Post Farm

As it's Easter week, there are no classes or clubs or groups on . . . a blank week with nothing to do (ahhh). So, I booked Beth, Toby and I on a trip with the local children's centre to go to White Post Farm.

The first big excitement was the fact that we had to go on a bus. Beth sat next to Carl and poor Toby got stuck with me. They were both really good on the journey and thankfully it was only a shortish ride.

We got to see loads of animals and reptiles. It was quite a big place and we saw the reptiles first. Toby was very interested and tried to grab anything that came close to the edge of the glass (tortoises, snakes, lizards . . . ). Beth wasn't so fussed and didn't much like the snakes but did of course like the tortoises. In the yard there was a tractor and combine harvester that you could sit in, it took quite a while to extract them both from those!

Beth got to bottle feed a goat and we also fed lots of sheep, lambs, goats and llamas that were in the fields around the farm. We took a picnic lunch and sat in the playground to eat it. As you can imagine, not much was consumed as there was just too much to see and explore. There were a few trampolines built into the ground and both of them loved being on those. Beth bouncing and Toby being bounced.

There were also lots of ride-on pedal tractors sat about so Toby spent much of the time pointing and saying "tractor". His highlight was probably having a tractor drive right by us while we were feeding the animals - in the photo you can only see the back of his head but he had big saucer eyes. :)

Have to say that my proudest moment was glancing up from putting Toby in the pushchair to see a crowd looking (very disapprovingly) at a certain little girl chasing hens and poking them with a stick. I had to make a split-second decision over whether to disown her and walk away or grab her and dash. ;) Would just like to point out that the photo shows her minus the stick.