HOLIDAY...hooray!!!

Well we've been a bit busy and when we were offered tha chance of a holiday we thought that would be nice. Cath said we could go with her to Centre Parcs at Sherwood Forest, so off we went for a few days.

We had swans outside our bedroom window and they were so friendly you could feed them if you were gentle and careful they didn't bite your fingers!.

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The grey swan in the photo above is a young swan nearly a year old and is called a cygnet.

This was a bit close for comfort!

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We went out onto the lake in a canoe. Cath and her sister Gail rowed us right out into the lake and round the edge and we saw lots of swans and some baby moorhens..

We climbed a tree for a better look out over the lake.

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Barbeque time. We helped with the cooking of the sausages and burgers.

These are our barbeque friends.Left to right-Geoff, us on his lap, Ken, Gail, Shaun, Maureen and Cath.

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We went along to the badminton tournament that Geoff played in. We cheered lots and Geoff won first place! He got a medal.

We also had a try at hitting some golf balls on the golf driving range.

We met up with a big friend of ours.

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We wanted to go and do some bird watching so we went along to the bird hide, here we are watching the bird feeding area.

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The hide is a little shed with windows to watch the birds, squirrels, rabbits and other things. Sometimes there are deer and foxes.

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We were unlucky to miss seeing a woodpecker...

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but we did get to see a swan on a nest hatching the eggs.

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