Bunty Bunny’s Blog, Everything new is an Adventure

I have been on a very long hop this time to a place called Scotland. I did lot’s of hopping and saw lots of nice and interesting things and some very funny things too! One of these was a hill called Electric Brae which is a hill, that’s not a hill. You can roll balls up it and cars were rolling up hill, hehehe. It’s called an optical illusion. I saw Ailsa Craig which is out at sea and is made from volcanic rock. I also hopped to some seaside places and saw some castles, one was called Dundonal Castle and the other one was called Dundonald Castle.

I had a long hop on a trail called The Battle of Independence at Glentrool. This hop took us me up big hills into a lovely forest and then into a clearing which had a lovely little stream running through it, then more climbing through forest and down a step narrow track to the bank of Loch Trool, which is very big. Then I had to hop back up to the path to follow the track, it was very hard work! I hopped along the track to the point where Robert the Bruce defeated the English by trapping them on the ridge and throwing stones and boulders at them. That’s a bit naughty isn’t? After another long hop I came to Bruce’s stone, it was put there as a thank you to Robert for throwing the stones I think. Then it was a long hop through the woods before I was back at the beginning. I really needed a rest after that.

Another hop I did was the Devils Trail. This hop started nice and gentle through farmland and following the Waters of Gregg. Then up hill through woodland. I was very tired and my little legs couldn’t hop so I hopped in the back pack of a kind walker and had a lift. Then we came to a very steep very muddy, very slippery gully and we slid down it, it was quite scary I thought we were going to fall over! At the end of the trail is a view point at High Changue, legend has it that here is where the battle between the Laird of Changue and the devil took place. The Laird had made a pack with the devil for great wealth, and when it was time to pay the devil back the Laird laid his bible on the ground and drew a circle around himself with his sword. You are supposed to be able to see the marks in the grass, but I couldn’t.

I also met a stag, but he was too busy to chat. He said he had to get his herd together and some very funny seagulls wanted to share my sandwiches. I gave them what I didn’t want.

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I have been a hopping again. I hopped back to Cannock Chase to hop the memorial hop; this is 8 mile of ups and downs, my little legs ached so much!

I started my hop at the glacier bolder which is very old; it comes from the ice age which was a very long time ago. I hopped along some very long paths and saw some lovely flowers all purples and some of the leaves were going a lovely red colour. I also saw balloons, people fly up in the sky in these, I know mommy, daddy and big brother have done this and they said it was lovely. I think I would like to fly up in the air by balloon.

After a long hop I came to the first memorial for the polish, then another long hop took me to a place called the Common wealth graveyard and this is were the people who died in the hospital are buried, then a short hop took me to the graveyard for the German people. All these places made me very sad, I don’t like war it’s a nasty thing. I hopped some more and came to a little stream and waterfall, I was very hot so I sat on the wall and a big dog came running down the path and jumped into the water, he went right under and lay there drinking the pond water! He told me he had been running up and down the hills and that there was nothing better then a roll in the water when you were hot. He got out and started to shake the water off just as his people came over the hill, they shouted at him to stop as the water was going all over me, but he just laughed and jumped back in the water, I didn’t mind I thought it was funny.

I then hopped some more and found the grave of Freda, she was a dog and a mascot for the New Zealand rifles, this was nearly the end of my hop, Just a little further and I was back where I had stared and it was time for home.

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I have been on another adventure, this time I hopped back to Birmingham to some thing called Artsfest. Lot’s of people doing all sorts of things for free so you can see lot’s and lots if you want.
Now I know that mommy, daddy and big brother like to go to somewhere called the theatre to watch something call plays, I thought play was something you did, not watched. So I thought it would be nice to see some plays. My first two plays were at a place called The Old Joint Stock; this is a very old building that used to be a bank and now is something called a pub. That’s a place where grown ups go to drink something call alcohol, sometimes if they have too much of it they become very silly and fall over! I think I will only drink carrot juice. I hopped up all the stairs and sat on the front row to watch the play. The people who did the acting, (that’s what it’s called) called themselves Treefrog and the play was about a lady who wants to be a fairygod mother, it was very funny and the next play was about two people who thought they had seen a unicorn; the man was eating sweets and talking at the same time, that’s very rude.
I then hopped to see ‘Art on the Railings’ clever people who can paint nice pictures hang their work here and you can buy some if you want too. I saw some very funny photos of bunnies; the man called them ‘The Mischievous bunnies’
I then hopped to The Hall of Memory. It made me feel a little bit sad in here there were poppies and little crosses and big books with the names of people who had died in the wars. It was a very pretty building, with a pretty window made of coloured glass
I then hopped to the Library theatre to see the Library theatre company present ‘A Midsummer night’s dream’. They talked funny in this play, it was something called Shakespearean language, I found it a bit hard to understand but it was very funny, roller skating fairies that had lots of sparkles on their faces.

I then had a very long hop to A E Harris to see Stan’s café. This was called Giant Steps and this time I was in the play. There were lots of pictures of things from Jack and the Bean Stalk stuck on the floor and walls. I had to hop around the room and act out the story. I thought this was a lot of fun. I found some nursery rhymes too, and stuck my fish on the wall.
Then I hopped to the Rep to see Leanne Stoddart she talked about how she had missed her train and fell out with her friend, it was funny and sad at the same time. Still at the Rep so I didn’t have to hop, I was happy about this I was getting tired. I watch a little bit of Something and Nothing perform Patrick and Bernadine, it was only a little bit, they are doing the real one later in the year.
Then it was off to the Big Wok for tea.
After tea and a rest I hopped back to Centenary Square to end the evening an out door show called Classical Fantasia with the Birmingham Royal Ballet, Birmingham Opera Company and the CBSO. First of all there were ballet dancers and they did bits from The Nutcracker, the Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, and the man said ‘but this year with a twist. This year it was ‘Strictly come Tchaikovsky.’ They danced and we had to vote them off. I really enjoyed this and clapped very load for all of the dancers, my little paws were quite sore. Then the CBSO played some music by people whose names I couldn’t say like Verdi, Britten, Prokoflev (this was Christmas music), and lot’s of others, (,mommy’s site has the full list) Two men sang, they had very big voices. And then we had fireworks, I thought these were very pretty, I couldn’t help going oooooh and laughing it was so exciting.

It was very late when the fireworks finished so I hopped on a bus and came home.

I really enjoyed my adventure; the best bits were Stan’s Café and the fireworks

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I have been on another hop, this time to Kingsford Park and Kinver. I didn’t know how far I would get as the sky was very grey, but the day just got hotter and hotter! I started my hop at Kingsford Park and after a little chat with the birds who told me it wasn’t going to rain, (they know all about the weather) I hopped across the road and through some very over grown trees which took me out into a field with lovely purple heather growing in it. I hopped a little further and found a notice that said that soon this part of land would be used for grazing and the heather would be allowed to grow more, I am pleased about that it is very pretty.
I hopped down muddy paths and up steep hill, under trees that the naughty wind had brought down, one had even fell on some cable and brought that down. Through lot’s off thick trees and brambles full of Blackberries. I heard bee’s singing and birds tweeting and saw lots of different types of mushrooms growing. I didn’t pick any as some can be a thing called poisonous that means they will make your tummy poorly. After a very long hop I came to some caves, but these caves weren’t in the floor, I had to climb up to them! They were a bit scary, my ears stood on end!! But I still went to look because that’s what having an adventure is all about; I have put some photos on the side for you to have a look at.

I was very hot and very dirty from my climbing, so it was time for home

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I have been on another adventure, this time I hopped to a place called Stourton and hopped into Kinver. First I had to hop through a very big corn field, but luckily it had been cut down otherwise I don’t think I would have been able to see where I was hopping as corn is very tall. As I hopped along I met a very strange little fellow, he was all brown and fluffy and was wriggling along amongst the bits of corn, I stopped to say ‘Good morning’ and we had a little chat. He told me he was a caterpillar and was looking for somewhere to go to sleep, he told me all about how he will wrap himself up in a cocoon and sleep for a few days, then when he wakes he will be a beautiful butterfly. I must say caterpillars make a lot more sense that butterflies. At the end of the field I had to hop over a very big style and down some very big steps, at the bottom of these I came to a little path with lots of blackberry bushes and big pink flowers, I though it would be nice to pick some blackberries for mommy, so I set to work. This wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be, the berries grow on trees which have big thorns on and they scratched me and kept hooking on my hat and pulling it off and I kept getting my paws and ears stuck on them. The bee’s working on the flowers thought it was very funny. Soon I had enough berries for a pie, so after saying good bye to the bees I carried on my hop down the narrow winding path, after a very long hop past lots of wild flowers and trees and squirrels playing, I came to a gate. I had to hop through this and on to the next part of my adventure

Next I hopped along a path which went through the middle of some big fields, horses live in these fields but they didn’t want to chat, they were much too busy eating the grass, they looked very smart in their coats and hats, the hats were to stop the flies getting in their eyes and ears. At the end of this path I hopped into Kinver. Kinver is very old some of the building have wood on them and they stick out into the road, they look like they have big fat bellies. I hopped thought the village and up the big hill then down the other side to the canal and went under the pretty bridge

I hopped along the canal and watched the boats, which move very slowly and had to keep jumping out of the way of people on pushbikes. They don’t like to stop, I don’t think they see a lot of the pretty things on their way, they go much too fast. After a very long hop I was back to where I had started, so it was time to go home and help to make the pie.

Which was very yummy

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Stourton

The weather was nice and sunny and after all the rain we have been having I thought I could do with a good hop. So I went to Pooley, first I hopped down by the canal but there weren’t any ducks to talk to, I did see a dragon fly but he was much too busy to stop and chat. After a very long hop I came to the old Alvecote priory, which was very broken down, in fact it was just a pile of stones and one pretty arch.

After I had hopped around the priory, I hopped over the road and down into the woody part of the park, I saw a couple of butterflies which I didn’t try to chat to, they are very silly and it’s very hard to try to get them to keep still.

I didn’t think the park was that pretty and there was no one to chat too, and it was getting very hot, so I hopped back home for a carrot.

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It was a hop back to Kingsbury Water Park but this time I hopped to the bird hides. Bird hides are little huts that you can sit in, they have little windows which you can open and you sit and watch the birds. The birds can’t see you so they don’t get upset at being stared at and even the shy birds are happy. I sat for a long time looking at all the different birds and got quite excited when one bird spread out its wings and stood very still. A man told me it was a cormorant, it was very pretty.

I hopped a few more trails and ended up at a canal, I have never seen a canal before they look exciting with the boats going up and down. The weather wasn’t very nice so I didn’t stay long, but it was nice to see all the birds.

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I have been on a very exciting adventure where I saw lots of very unusual things, and I went on a bus for the first time. I liked riding the bus because you could see lot’s of things when you sat on the top.
I went into the city which is called Birmingham. In Birmingham there are lots of big museums and on this trip I visited one called the Gas Hall to see an exhibition, (that’s what they call it when they have things on show) about someone called Matthew Boulton, he lived a very long time ago and was a very clever man. He made things and the exhibition had lots of the things he had made like coins and golden clocks and pretty sliver things.

Then I hopped a very long way to see an installation, (I think installation is just another word for exhibition) by Tatham Osullivan which was very strange, a big tunnel which was all coloured on the outside and all white on the inside and a dark room with some photos of the town being shown on a big screen. I didn’t understand what it all meant, I could have done with a leaflet or some information boards, (I like information boards). Then I hopped to the ikon to look at something called ‘When the scales fall from your eyes.’ I liked this, it was lots of glass bodies, not all of a body, just the bit from the waist to the neck, and they didn’t have any arms. Their heads were scales and they all sat on beds and cupboards looking at a big light on the wall. Everything was white, even the telephone, I read in the little book that the artist, (that’s the people who made it) were trying to make us think about how much we value muchness for muchness sake. I didn’t understand what that meant, but mommy told me it meant that some of the things we think are important are not that important because they are just things.
After that I hopped to Moor street station to see ‘There are no others, there is only us’ I really liked this. I lay on a big bean bag and watched a film of birds flying all together and listened to some lovely music, I almost went to sleep!

Then I had a very long hop to the last thing I want to see, and that was ‘The tower of time.’ Lot’s and lot’s of clocks. It was all in a very tall tower and I had to hop up lots of steps that went round and round just like in the old castles I visited. On the first floor was one little clock all on it’s own, then on the next floor there were 10 clocks, then on the next floor 100 clocks and on the last floor 1000 clocks all ticking away.

Then I had to hop all the way back down again.

I was very hot and tired by this time, so I got back on the bus and went home.

I didn’t understand some of the things I looked at, but I enjoyed it just the same, and big brother said it didn’t matter that I didn’t understand it, I had tried and that’s what counts.

I have put some links on here if you want to read more.

Gas hall info ikon info there is only us film tower of time info tower info

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This was exciting, I went to Kingsbury Water Park in the evening to join a bat hopped, (sorry there are no photos it was dark). First of all we had tea, lots of people had jacket potatoes, but I didn’t think I would like a potato with a coat on so I had a carrot. Then we went and sat in a room and a very nice man showed us some pictures of bat’s and told us some very interesting facts about them. Then it was time to go and look for them, we all hopped out into the trees and I could hear little chirpy sounds on the bat detector. This is a little machine that picks up the noises that the bats make, because they speak at a very high pitch that no one can hear. The bat detector started to make a lot of noise and the man say look up and there were two little Pipistrelle’s they are the smallest bat’s that we have here in the UK. We then hopped down by the lake, and all the time the Pipistrells’s were flying around above us looking for their tea. We stood looking at the lake and before long we saw two Daubentons flying just above the water, they are the only bats that do this and they catch the bugs with their big feet. Their favourite food is yellow bellied moths, but they can’t eat the wings so they pull them off and drop them on the floor. They always go to the same place to eat, so if you find a pile of wings on the floor, just above you are is where the bats sit to eat his tea. I would have liked to talk to the bat’s but they were very busy looking for their tea and the man said I wouldn’t be able to hear them anyway, but I was just happy to see them, they are very sweet. I like bats. I wish some would come and live with us in our house, mommy wouldn’t mind she said so.

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On Sunday I went for a hop around Kingsbury Water Park, I didn’t know how big it was so I will need to go back again so that I can hop around the rest of it. It is very pretty and there are lots of pools and trees. I made some really nice friends.

I met a little baby moorhen called Tiny, he had lost his mommy, I was sure she hadn’t gone far, so I sat on the bank and talked to him. We chatted about what he liked best about his pond and he told me he liked playing hide and seek in the trees with his brothers and sisters. It wasn’t to long before his mommy came back, she thanked me for staying with Tiny and keeping him company. Then I carried on with my hop

After hopping for a little while I came to a big field full of wild flowers and butterflies. Aren’t butterflies funny? It made me laugh the way they never kept still and they talk just as fast as they move around, but the only thing they seem to want to talk about is how pretty they are, so I didn’t stay long.

A bit further on I met Benjamin, he’s a rabbit like me, except he was brown. He was nibbling at the grass and asked me if I cared to join him. So I did, then I shared my carrot with him. We chatted about where he live and he took me to see his burrow, it was quite dark, I told him about where I live and he thought it sound funny. We sat in the sun for a while and he told me about all his brothers and sisters, (he has quite a lot). Then it was time for me to hop some more.

I hopped to a pond and met a Grebe who told me he was good at fishing and just to prove it he dived into the pond and came back up with a fish, I was very impressed, I don’t think I could do.

A little further on I came to another pool where there was a lovely baby swan. I was just about to say hello when his daddy came over and hissed at me to leave his little boy at home! I only wanted to say hello, I think that swan was very rude. I feel sorry for the baby swan, he won’t have many friends if his daddy is always so rude.

There is a miniature railway there too, It wasn’t running when I was there so it was safe for me to sit on the track, but you must never ever walk on the tracks of the really big trains, it’s very dangerous, and you should really play on little either, I was a very naughty Bunty. I will not do it again. I was very tried by now, so I went home.

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