A Few Hours at the Zoo, Banham, Norfolk - 8th January 2023

Isobel's away in Dublin for the weekend and so misses a surprising turn of events where it's the boys who actually suggest going out to do something, instead of sitting on their arses watching telly or playing Xbox all day. The suggestion is Banham Zoo, which Fred went to only the weekend before but the rest of us haven't been for ages. After the zoo, there's a very brief stop at the Banham Barrel - the home venue of the BBs and site of numerous legendary gigs - just to see if it's still there. It is, although its camping field has now become a housing estate.

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People get the meerkat experience

People get the meerkat experience

A sloth trundles around on some branches

Fred points at some sloth action

A bird does its intimidation dance at a sloth

A small monkey with a very long tail

A tortoise experience occurs

Harry looks around

Harry gets up close to a tortoise

A small coiled green constrictor snake

A meerkat is on sentry duty

Fred pretends to be a scary animal of some sort

Harry peers at some sad monkeys

A sea lion has a swim

Sea lions thrash around in the water

A dozing cat gives the hairy eyeball

The 'Floofy Chunk', according to Fred

Fred takes a photo of the one-eyed snow leopard

Harry looks at an infomation board

One of the grown-up tiger cubs prowls around

Fred tries to get a photo

A tiger gets close to Harry

Another tiger hangs around

Pink flamingos in the rain

A camel sticks its head out into the rain

Narry by the camel enclosure

There's a talk at the sea lion enclosure

A sealion does some porpoising

A sea lion leaps out of the water

The boys look at something in a tank

We see a giant red-legged millipede

More stuff in tanks

The painted gorilla outside the café

Harry opens a can of Tango

The boys in the café

Harry walks along a brick wall

Fred looks at a bird

Harry goes head-to-head with a bird in a cage

The boys by the owl enclosures

A Great Grey Owl looks askance

Harry and Fred in the trees

A giraffe skeleton

A giraffe stands with its head in the rain

Harry looks at a giraffe

A zoo buggy trundles around in the lashing rain

We're back in the café area

A pair of goats

Harry checks the cow for milk

The boys on the Fergie TE120

Harry drives a Little Grey Fergie

Harry stands on the tractor

We stop in the gift shop to buy more things

Fred on the anti-bird-flu disinfectant mat

The Banham Barrel - home of many a BBs gig

The Barrel's camping field is now a housing estate