Day out at Peak Wildlife Park, Staffordshire
My daughter looked aggrieved as we strolled around Peak Wildlife Park. But why couldn’t we have a wallaby as a pet, she wanted to know? And a lemur. And a meerkat. And ideally a couple of penguins….
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My daughter looked aggrieved as we strolled around Peak Wildlife Park. But why couldn’t we have a wallaby as a pet, she wanted to know? And a lemur. And a meerkat. And ideally a couple of penguins….
‘Get lost’ said the sign. My daughter squeaked with excitement and promptly plunged into the swaying grasses which make up the floral labyrinth at Trentham Estate in November. paid collaboration/ad* I’ve lost count of the number of…
The clay spun around on the wheel, my daughter’s hands stretching and flattening it, before gently coaxing it into a pot shape – all closely overseen by someone far more expert. paid collaboration/ad* There’s something rather magical…
The baby monkey leapt through the air towards its mother’s back. And missed. At just three weeks old, the youngest member of the Trentham Monkey Forest’s troupe of Barbary Macaques was still working on the kind of…
The only drawback to a morning spent with monkeys is working out how to persuade your toddler to leave. Fortunately I had a magical idea up my sleeve – visiting the Trentham Gardens fairies. ad – review visit* In…
‘The monkeys don’t mind the rain,’ Matt assured us, as we stepped through the gates. ‘They’ll be out and about as usual.’ It was all right for them, they had fur coats on on the wettest, coldest…