Big thing on on at work last week which horrifically involved me working last Saturday. Which I never think is right. I specifically chose a career path that involved no outdoor working, no heavy lifting and working hours between 8.00am to 5pm Monday to Friday. Having to work a Saturday is like heresy.
A sacred trust has been breached as far as I'm concerned.
Anyway, this week I took Friday off as payback and we headed off to a local farm. Not what I'd consider your typical tourist destination but farms seems to be going in for this kind of thing in a big way these days. It's like a zoo, but less interesting. No matter what you do cows and sheep are never going to feature up there with lions and tigers in terms of crowd appeal in my opinion.
Which apparently is a minority view as the place was jumping, on a Friday, outside of school holidays. It's also, given the facilities on offer, surprisingly expensive with the entrance fee being higher for kids than for adults, which I think is just rubbing it in.
As expected there were cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, guinea pigs and some giant tortoises who apparently are masters of disguise, as I never saw any. Some play facilities featuring the classic slide and swings, but also some junior go-carts, which from my point of view required a lot of pushing. But the highlight was the maze made of haybails where myself and Jamie spent a happy fifteen minutes recreating the ZX81 classic 3D Monster Maze (with me as the monster obviously).
But for Jamie, the big draw of the place was the tractor ride. It was locked off for school kid trips until 2pm and Jamie watched the tractor with it's trailor stuff with kids coming and going with obvious anticipation, and even though we were probably ready to go home around then there was no way we could deny him his little adventure.
The adventure consisted of a five minute ride in an open air trailer with only a passing familiarity with the concept of suspension up to the top field where the farmer stops and educates us in the finer points of sheep farming for ten minutes before bouncing back down the hill.
Jamie seemed to enjoy it though, so that was okay.
I do think the most fun was had by Sarah... when me and Jamie were bouncing around the countryside and Fraser was sleeping she managed a nice, peaceful twenty minutes that also featured a cup of tea.
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