Even better than the zoo .....

“This is even better than going to the zoo” declared Rachel today on our nature walk – we’ve seen a peacock, some pigs, horses, Shetland ponies, hens, donkeys, sheep and a dozen or so wild boar. (Although, strictly speaking, they weren’t very wild at all – they were in an enclosure at the back of someone’s garden.)
Time went very quickly today – we managed a stonking sixteen miles in five and a quarter hours – we’ve come to the conclusion that it’s the walking and talking that does it. We covered any number of topics today: the state of the economy; how we would run big corporations; the construction industry; the demise of the car industry; and then we fell back to our old favourites – food and shopping. As we were very nearly running out of things to discuss – which to be honest I don’t think is EVER going to happen - we were met by Joanna and Harvey, the five year old boxer dog, to walk a stretch of the Weavers Way around where they live. We then had to stop talking altogether because we were going at such a pace that it was all we could do to keep breathing! Thank you Joanna for joining us!
Thank you also to my Mum who picked Rachel and I up from the Swan hostelry in Stalham and took us back to Blickling to collect our cars – after a quick stop in the farm shop for pork pies and sausage rolls, which we can heartily recommend.
So a very good day, very quick – and a challenge issued to the boys now – sixteen in five hours fifteen – beat that!