Rosie is getting to an age where she is beginning to remember things from not only her recent, but her relatively distant past. It's become an annual summer event to visit Cannon Hall Open Farm in Yorkshire and she has very clear memories of her trip there last summer and therefore knew what to expect when we went there today. Emily on the other hand, was expecting to see tigers, giraffes and monkeys and no amount of explaination could convince her otherwise. The first animal that we saw was a wallaby which didn't exactly serve to reinforce the notion of what types of animals live on a farm. Further on, we saw what can traditionally be expected: lots of cows, sheep, goats, donkeys and pigs. The odd rabbit, guinea pig and llama were bonus animals. The girls were able to milk a cow (just a plastic one but they didn't seem to mind!), see pregnant sows and suckling piglets, feed the goats and generally be at one with nature albeit in a confined and controlled environment.
They were less than impressed by how smelly the pigs were and whilst Emily liked to idea of the animals feeding from her hand, when it came to it, most of her feed ended up thrown on the floor in a panic. It didn't help when a cheeky little goat helped itself to the feed bag from her hand and at this point she decided that feeding animals was simply beyond the pale and was content simply to watch. Rosie on the other hand, really got stuck into the feeding and with only a minor hiccup of a snorting billy goat to upset her, gladly used all her bag and what was left of Emily's as well.
There was only one significant disappointment of the day for the girls and that was that Grandma didn't get spat in the face by a llama like she did last year but the sun shone brightly, the ice cream was delicious and we have one more precious memory stored up of happy summer days in England.....
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