Billy the Kid

Daddy and I went to see Gran and Grandad at the weekend while Mummy was working (poor Mummy). We all went along to Fife Animal Park as Great Gran Peg had recommended it. It looks like it's a fairly new place near Cupar and it was a lot of fun.

They've got a large pet shop kind of like your usual Pets at Home type thing but with some more interesting animals. They had four skunk for sale. And the skunk were VERY smelly! Not a good advert - I certainly wouldn't be looking to buy them.

After a quick look around the animals for sale we went outside to the animal park. There's an odd range of animals out there. It's a bit like a cross between a zoo and a bizarre farm. With fields or pens for each of the animals. They've got lamas, pigs, lots of ducks of varying kinds, black swans, at least three different kinds of lemurs, parrots, rabbits, chipmunks, donkeys, emus (2 different kinds), wallabies, goats... And loads more - read their website or go along to see for yourself. But on the subject of goats...

You can buy some food for the animals and you can feed any of them this food and almost all of them know you have it and go a bit wild for it (the porcupines were very funny expecting it and then arguing with each other when we eventually gave them some). Some of the animals can get a bit impatient - like the goat in the picture below. I was just about to throw some over the fence for it and it couldn't wait. Another half centimetre and I'd have been concussed by this thing. No grudges though - it was eating out of my hand a few minutes after this photo was taken.


Half way around there's a wee section for picnics (as long as you buy them there!) and the kids to have a play. There's buggies, a large sandpit, swings and a bit raised platform so that you can see over the park. Up in the corner though was something fenced off that no one else had seen, but I spotted it from the raised platform and headed straight there. It was a zip-line and I'd never been on one before, not even sure if I've seen one before but it looked like fun. And it was! I made Daddy pull the zip-line back up to the top over and over again and push me harder and harder. It was great fun!

The coolest company car

Some firemen from Lothian and Borders Fire Brigade came to visit today to do a home safety check.

Not only did Mummy have two hunky firemen in the house, but I got a shot in the fire engine - which was parked at my front door.


And then just as I was getting out of the fire engine they got an emergency call and had to get on their fire suits and rush off to a fire. And they put the siren on as they were leaving. It's not nice that they had to go to a real fire, but it was really cool having them leave with the siren on!

I'm going to be a fireman when I grow up!

Burntisland Beach

Before we went to Auntie Vikki's open day on Saturday we popped along to Burntisland Beach to kill some time. I've not been here before and it was good fun, even though we couldn't get the kite up. It was a very grey and overcast day but also really warm and with absolutely no wind at all. It's a blue flag beach but it doesn't come close to our favourite beach - St Andrews' West Sands. There's a short, steep bit of nice sand and then a really big bit of muddy sand. The tide goes out very very far and when we were there it was a long way off so we weren't able to marvel at any great waves. The muddy sand was pretty wet all the way out and only I had wellies on so Mummy and Daddy couldn't play in it with me.

There's apparently a lot of rock pools and stuff but we didn't have time to fully explore. Burntisland looks like a nice we town so we'll try to come back some day and spend a bit longer in the place. Here's a picture of me on the beach and some of the tiny little shells I collected. I am in the picture, honest. It was a very grey overcast day and I was wearing a grey top. There's a prize for the person that chooses the spot closest to where I am standing!

BAE Systems Open Day

We went to an open day at Auntie Vikki's work at the weekend. That was great fun! For a start we got to see Auntie Vikki, Uncle Ian, Gran and Grandad but there was also loads of fun stuff to do. It was spoiled a wee bit by the ultra-boring tour of Auntie Vikki's work. They just make some of the most advanced missiles in the british forces there so it's really not very interesting.

But outside they had football mascots (here's me with Sammy the Dunfermline mascot).


There were also fairground-type things for us kids (me and Mummy). Here we are on the tea-cups and the inflatable chute. I had a go on a horse, got some ice-cream, won a balloon by rolling a 2 pence piece onto a star. It was a really tiring day.


On the way out to the car I had a go in a fire engine and then I worked the army's JCB digger and scored a goal by knocking a ball off a traffic cone with the back bucket. It really was a busy day. I didn't want to go home so we went to Auntie Vikki's house for a wee while before going home. Auntie Vikki is very lucky to work at a place with all those games in the car park. I'd like to work someplace like that when I grow up.

Birthday bash

A couple of weeks ago we went up north to have a family dinner. There are a few milestone birthdays in Mummy's family this year - a 40th, a 50th and an 80th so we got together to have lunch. It's unusual to get all of Mummy's family together at the same time so it was really fun. You can't beat being the centre of attention for 4 women! So Daddy says anyway.

While we waited to be seated, Uncle Ian and I had a wee game of chess. I think he found it pretty challenging but I let him win in the end.


Lunch was excellent, even with the inevitable ordering debacle, but the food and company were superb. A good time was had by all.

On the way home we stopped in at Auntie Carol and Uncle Dave's house again. We spent a while in the garden and I helped Uncle Dave dig up some of his new potatoes which we had with mince when we got home (very good too, thanks Uncle Dave!). Daddy also snapped a photo of Mummy stealing more raspberries while she thought no one was looking!


Unfortunately it was just a day trip so we had to head home again pretty quickly. We're all already looking forward to the next trip north.

What's up, Doc?

Mummy's got a couple of pet rabbits now. They live in the sitting room in a massive cage. The cage is big enough for me to live in! They're called Elliot and... MUM! What's the other one called today?

Mummy can't decide on a name for the little girl rabbit. When it arrived (she got them from a rabbit rescue so they had names) it was called Twinkle. Mummy's not too keen on that name. It doesn't help that the rabbit reminds her so much of one of her old rabbits that she's called it Magic more than anything else. I think she's attempting to call it Emily, which more suits Mummy's style and goes a bit better with Elliot too, I think. Daddy's taking to calling it Emaybe until Mummy settles on the final name.

The rabbits love me when they get out. So long as I have food for them. I suspect Mummy might not be feeding them enough as they're almost rabid rabbits if you've got a nice bit of cabbage in your hand. They're sweet though and don't mind being stroked or a little boy jumping around with them on the sitting room carpet so I've forgiven them for stealing all my play area. Can't wait for Daddy to get the new telly in the family room though!

Here's a couple of photos - Elliot in the first and Twinkle/Magic/Emily in the second.

100th Post

How about that?! 100 posts 21 months. It's not a great average. Mostly it's down to laziness, sometimes down to busy-ness, and occasional down to boring-ness (that's my folks being too boring to do something exciting with me that's worth blogging about).

The recent average has been much better though (don't look at July!). Maybe if we keep this up we'll get more readers...

Here's some pictures just for fun.


Update - this isn't technically the 100th post anymore. Daddy's been adding some old posts heading back to birth. Technically I started this lark in November 2006, any blogs before that are Daddy pretending to be me (I was really too young to be writing blogs before then).