Sunday, March 25, 2018

Folly!

As an early celebration of Younger Son's birthday he, Nuora and GrandSon4 went to Folly Farm today. And they took Granny along too!

Folly Farm was opened in, I think, 1986 by Farmer Glyn. I'm sure we went there in the very early days when it was just a few farm animals and some arcade games. Today it has an excellent reputation as an educational breeding zoo and very fun place. It's been done out really well, the animal enclosures are large and the animals look well looked after.

There's a large indoor play area and an indoor old-fashioned fairground as well as numerous outside play areas that could quite easily keep children occupied all day even without the attraction of the farm animals and wild beasts. The food in the restaurant was pretty basic which seemed a bit of a let-down when so much thought has gone into everything else.

But on to the fun stuff.


Bottom up!



The endangered black rhino

Wonderful weather and a great day out. Much for which to be thankful. And most of all seeing the delight on GrandSon4's face. He was taken to a zoo in Italy last year but now a bit older he really appreciated seeing the animals for real, both the farm and wild. He doesn't watch television so he's not even seen lions or giraffes on that. Of course the absolute best bit for him was the chance to ride on a tractor train and have a go on a digger - his biggest passion in life.

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