At the farm

This week Arty had a trip to a farm with nursery, parents were told that they could accompany their child, although it wasn't necessary.  As Jenny would be at work that day I offered to go with Arty.  

It's not very often I get to spend time alone with Arty as is in nursery on the day's Jenny works, so it was lovely to spend the day with him.  He is a completely different character to Oliver, and much more boisterous, but still great company.

He is big into animals, especially farm animals, he has a huge collection of Schleich plastic animals and they are pretty much all he plays with, so a day at a farm was perfect for him.

They had lots of piglets and Arty just loved them so much, we had to go and see they about four times, they were rather cute though 

There was an enclosure with Meerkats, they are funny little creatures aren't they?

They would all run in and have a warm every so often

I felt quite sorry for this beautiful owl, he should be out in the wild not in this enclosure.  He looked a bit scared of all the children and the noise they were making

There was a laughing Kookaburra, which I've never seen before, I was hoping to hear them, but they were not up for laughing

There were lots of goats but this one wanted his photo taken, ha ha

There were the usual sheep, ponies, deer and fowl as well, although all the ducks and chickens were confined because of avian flu.

There were some Christmas related activities too, Santa came to see the children and they got to decorate a gingerbread man and play some games and of course the children got to choose a present off Santa, Arty chose some more farm animals, of course!  to go with the other hundred or so he already has, lol.

We had a brilliant day and Arty was as good as gold.  He was absolutely shattered by the end though and slept most of the way back on the coach.

I can't believe that Christmas is now just a few short days away, I'm afraid that I'm not really in a very Christmassy mood, I'm just going through the motions.  

I've still got a lot of presents to wrap which I'm planning on tackling tomorrow, all the food shopping is done, no big shop for us, I've been buying extra treats for weeks and putting them away and I've done a rough meal plan for the week after Christmas, for which everything has been bought.   I would say that I was looking forward to a rest and some time at home but, as I don't go out to work now the days are really not going to be any different to any other day!

I will pop back and share the rest of my advent yarns with you before next weekend

Take care

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