Life in the fast lane of business is all consuming so
thanks for the nudge Donna to get back to my blog with encouragement from Milo.
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My first contract in West Sussex is going very well,
having a significant impact on the ‘flow of patients’ through their hospital
beds, thereby complimented with an extension to my contract to early December,
and maybe beyond. The negatives so far have been a bump with a lorry and a
speeding ticket!!
As always October brings my birthday. We planned a luxury
weekend away the following weekend which was bliss in a beautiful bed, wider
than our caravan, embracing the moment. So the weekend of my birthday was an
outing with the boys, Milo told to humor is mother’s wishes which he did
initially a sullen glee.
We went to the
‘Camel Oasis Park’ near Beccles on a soggy blustery Saturday and had a really
good time. It is a farm park with some usual farm animals and unusual animals
like camels, alpacas, llamas, donkeys, goats, pigs, rabbits, guinea pigs,
ferrets, wallabies both brown and a big white wallaby (felt surreal to me as it
looked like the white rabbit out of Alice in Wonderland) with playing areas for
little boys and bigger boys.
The approach being if you can reach the animal you can
feed it and Jerry was in his element feeding, mostly goats as the donkeys made
the most ex-ordinarily loud noise throughout the afternoon. There was at least
a dozen camels as we were introduced to Norman, Elvis, Goblin, Bill, Jenny and
Sonny then as a treat Dylan and I rode on Cuthbert. We sat in a saddle between
Cuthbert’s two humps and held on to straps on the front hump then meandered
around the park stopping as Claude wished, chewing greenery and straddle his
legs to have a relieving pee. Dylan and I loved the experience of these huge
but quiet beasts.
There is no doubt the funniest experience was the Rhea.
They look like small emu and conduct like swans using their wings to wrap
around their body and coil their long necks over their body when lying down. Out
of the blue they suddenly got up and ran erratically around their pen, darting
from one point to another then jumping on the spot but their heads remained at
the same point giving the illusion their necks consetine up to their head. We
laughed and laughed. I hope you will get a sense of how hilarious the Rhea were
by my short clip below.
Our October started with picking walnuts and getting much
stained hands, poor Dylan looked filthy for weeks at school not a good look as
he chased the girls. The month has ended with Halloween as we decorated Dylan’s
awning with the biggest spider you have ever seen, got pretty artistic with
pumpkin carving and a treasure hunt of treats for boys all round.
