Saturday, 13 February 2010
I hate Satnavs, I loath Satnavs, I despise Satnavs, they are an abomination to mankind guaranteed to add to the technology that is eating your brains, don’t use them!!! Adam and I had a tough day, Simon, Holly and Robin all off, eggs to do, feeding round, birds to get out, a Hawk Experience Day, a Handling experience for a birthday boy, a French girl visiting, plus three demonstrations, an underweight barn owl to deal with and then, Satnavs!!! There was about 40 minutes between the end of the work during the day, and the Valentines Owl evening, to sit down for a little while and have a cup of tea and I had FIVE bloody phone calls from people who were lost, why, because of their bloody satnavs. Aggggggggggghhhhhhh!!Friday was a slightly more peaceful day, actually come to think of it, I must be nuts, we – the team that is – cleaned two more of the enclosures in Barn 2 so we have four left to do. Mike started the serious drainage, so we then filled in all the trenches and got the paths back to a safe state for the owl evening, it would have been a bit of a problem with visitors falling in trenches in the dark!!` We flew all the birds and then did an Owl Evening. It was not at all peaceful!
Actually both night’s fri and Sat audiences were really good fun and a pleasure to take round, and hopefully some of them will come back and visit during the day and see what we do in daylight!! The birds all flew well, the young Lanners are coming on a treat and will I think be very good. The little Male Lugger is also showing signs of being a good flyer. Adam got my Bald Eagle to sit on the fist and his Steppe Eagle did its first proper turn, so all in all, the day was OK. Oh and the Barn Owl is fine too.
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We were at your owl evening on Saturday and had a wonderful time! Thanks to you and your staff for such a memorable and magical experience!!
Now rather glad that we finally stumbled upon the centre when our satnav ran out of advice without the need to make call number 6 (my family was there during the day on the 13th). For we confirmed urbanites who couldn't reliably get the kids to school without high-tech help, Jemima's wonderful centre is about as easy to find as Brigadoon on a misty morn...
We did, however, have a great time. I enjoyed the birds, my children took several hundred pictures of dogs and my husband and I especially loved the banter. Sadly, we can repeat very few of the bon mots Jemima imparted now we are home, for fear of our children being taken in to care... Great stuff however and look forward to our return - map in hand.
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