So a couple of weeks ago saw us at Birdland, which sounds rather more like a non-politically-correct sort of place than it is in reality. I (Ben) lived in Gloucestershire when I was younger, so visited here a couple of times. Its a bird-themed animal sanctuary in Bourton on the Water, so because the kids love animals and we like doing animal photography every now and again,we went down as a family for the day with my parents and trainee-vet sister, and started by slightly baffling the poor girl on the reception with a bewildering array of vouchers to get us all in on a discount.
P-p-p-pick up a penguin- Amy got some nice close-ups of the Penguins to start with, thus getting nice shots and taking care of this years Christmas Card in one fell swoop.
Birds!
Bird!
Bird!
Not a bird!
Fluffy plants!
Bird!
Yes, sarcastic captioning. The birds were very tame and photogenic, the giant tortoise...es? tortoise-i? Not sure of the plural... but they were very entertaining to the kids, and reminded me of the pet tortoise we had when I was little.
Overall, good weather, nice tourist attraction, pleasantly eclectic animals.
We did think of trying to get some nice photographs of Bourton itself, but the village was (as ever) heaving with hundreds of tourists also photographing the myriad stone bridges and pretty houses, so we gave up and just hit the shops.
Not sure what to post next, we have muchos from Wales, but also a new project has just potentially kicked off... cannot say much yet, except it involves Daleks...
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