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Bunty goes to the Breacon beacons

September 18, 2014 · Filed under Adventures · Tagged , , , , ,

Brecon Beacons 019 Hello, I have been on another adventure. I have been back to the Breacon Beacons to do some more waterfall hops.
Just outside where  the caravan was parked was  a little river so after I had unpacked my carrots I went for a hop across the stones. There an’t any fish in this river because its not really deep enough but some of the stones were very slippy but I didn’t fall in. I found some blackberries along the bank to have for my supper they were very nice.

On my first full day I thought it would be nice to hop along to see Neath Abbey, it is very old and all fallen down now, some of it had fences around it because the rain had made it unsafe, but that didn’t matter it was still very pretty. People called monks used to live in it a very very long time a ago and then it was sold to very rich people who turned it into their home. Then it was used as a place to smelt copper,  it has been a lot of things.  I learnt that smelt means to melt it,  I like to learn new things.
I then hopped to Port Talbot where I saw a big whale! He wasn’t real, he was made from concrete, and all the people children can play on him. Then it was time to see a waterfall, but this was an easy one to see. It was in a National trust museum called Aberdulais Falls Trail. The falls used to run a big waterwheel which helped to run the tin mine that used to be here, lots of people worked here. Some of them were only little children, I don’t think it would have been very nice. There are still bits of the old buildings and lots of things to read and look at, there’s even a little film to watch. I was a bit disappointed that I couldn’t hop right up to the waterfall like I have all the others.

 

 

My little paws hurt, so I went home for carrots and a nap.

 

The next day I hopped to do the Dinas Rock and Sgydau Sychrdy Falls and then the Powder Trail, all these are very close together. So I didn’t have to hop far to do them all, although it did take me a long time to find the start of the Sgydau Sychrdy trail because it wasn’t sign posted and the map wasn’t very good. When I had finished my hop I saw two other people looking at the map and looking very confused, so I went and asked them if they were looking for the trail to Sgydau Sychrdy and when they said yes I showed them where the trail started. They told me I was very kind. Dinas Rock is very big I could only just see the top, people climb up and down it, I think they must be very brave. The hop to Sgydau Sychrdy was easy and the falls were tucked away at the side of the rocks, but they were still very loud. The powder trail can be hopped two ways, the easy way is straight up the river and back again and the hard way is to go over the top of the big rock and down the steep steep other side. It was very steep. I was very tired so I went for a nap after I had looked at the full moon, my people mommy told me to lookout for the moon because it was called the harvest moon and not only was it a full moon but it was a supermoon too.

The next day I hopped to Melincourt falls, this fall is 80 foot tall and it is very very pretty, I stayed there for quite a long time because it was so pretty. Then for my last hop I hopped the Henrhyd falls and Nant Llech trail, this was a hard hop for my little legs, lots of hills and slippy paths. I hopped and hopped through the pretty trees until I came to the water falls, they are all very pretty, I only saw the last one from the bridge because when I was going to go down the slop Banjo the dogs came running up the path, saying ‘it wasn’t right he always had a little play in this part of the river everyday, it was his part of the river’. When I asked him why his people daddy wouldn’t let him play he said it was because his people daddy had told him there were people ‘skinny dipping’ in there. I didn’t understand what he meant and when he told me I thought they must be very brave people to want to swim in the very cold water with no clothes on.

Then it was time to come home and tell everyone about my adventure

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Bunty goes to Mablethorpe

May 13, 2014 · Filed under Adventures · Tagged , , , ,

mablethorpe 094Hello, I have been on another adventure this time to the seaside.

I went to a place called Mablethorpe. On my first afternoon there I had a lovely time building a sand fort and then playing in it and had a hop by the sea.

On my first full day I went for a very long hop along a path called a promenade it ran all the way along the beaches which meant I could do the hop and play on the beach. I hopped all the way from Mablethorpe to Sandilands. On the hop I saw some funny little houses right by the beaches they were all painted in bright colours and some had pictures painted on them. I asked a dog who was playing on the beach what they were and he told me that they were called beach huts and people who wanted to be by the beach but didn’t want to be on the beach used them to sit in and make cups of tea. He told me that some people used them to get changed in so that they could go and swim in the sea. It must be very nice to have a beach hut. I hopped off the promenade at Sandilands to have a look at the little park. It didn’t have things to play on but it did have a boat and a very pretty waterfall and fountain. I was starting to feel tired so I thought I would start the hop back. When I got back to the caravan I had hopped 10 whole miles. I had to have a carrot to recover.

Another day I went to Skegness and played in the penny arcades, I played on the machines called 2 penny waterfalls. I had to drop a 2 pence in a slot and it bounced down onto a shelf. A wall moved across and pushed the coins sometimes the coins fell down onto another shelf and they got pushed again. Sometimes the coins were pushed over the edge and fell out of the machine and I could keep these coins, but I didn’t I put them back in the machine because there were prizes in the machines too. I won a crown, a little rabbit, a handbag and a lizard.
Skegness has a natureland and seal sanctuary I thought it would be nice to go and see the animals so I hopped along to have a look. It’s not very big but it has seals and penguins, fish, lot’s of reptiles, butterflies and a few other animals. I met a very nice Iguana, call Spike who told me he liked living at the zoo because it was always warm and he didn’t have to worry about finding food. He asked me if I had seen Jolly the fisherman and I told him I hadn’t, he said to make sure I saw him before I went home and I had to try something called fish and chips.

 

 

The weather wasn’t very nice the next day so I hopped to a place called Cleethorpes but I didn’t like it I so hopped back to Skegness and played on the beach and because I hadn’t seen Jolly I went to find him.  Jolly is a happy dancing fisherman and was first a picture on a poster to advertise Skegness and now there’s a statue of him in the town. I had my photo taken with him. I was feeling  hunger and had forgotten my carrots so I went to a shop called a fish and chip shop and tried Fish and Chips with something called mushy peas, I thought they were very yummy.

I was very tired and my little paws hurt so I deiced it was time to come home.

 

Keep hopping love Bunty

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Bunny goes to Hay-On-Wye and has a shoe stolen.

November 15, 2013 · Filed under Adventures · Tagged , , , ,

 hay on wye 015Hello,
I have been on another adventure, this time to Wales. In the field next to the van where I stayed were a flock of sheep, they told me about an old burial place called Arthur’s Stone; I thought it sounded exciting so I went to find it. It is very very old, even older than some of the graves I have looked at before. It wasn’t in a church yard because they didn’t bury people like that in the stone age, and it wasn’t like the other graves I have looked at. This one is called a tomb and there would have been a little passage to get in, the people were buried with their pots and axes and spears and large stones were placed on the top, it look a little bit like a funny little house, I think it would make a good home for little bunnies, I don’t think people would mind just as long as the bunnies behaved themselves.

The next day I did the circular hop from the site to Hay-on-Wye, first I had to hop along a very busy road then down a little path which had a little stream running along side; it was very pretty but very muddy. Then came a very long hop up a very long hill, my little legs were ever so tired when I got to the top. Hay-on-Wye is a little village full of book shops, it is the biggest place in the world for second-hand books, well that’s what the tea towel I read in a shop said. I had a little look around the shops, and then hopped down to the river. My people mommy had told me about a place called The Warren which is a big field at the end of a river walk, and at the end of the field is a beach. I had never heard of a beach in woodland, so I wanted to try to find it. After a long hop along the river I came to a field with two little horses in, I asked them if they knew where the Warren was and they told me I only had to follow the muddy path, they didn’t tell me to watch out for naughty dogs. I hopped down the path and had to be very careful to hop around the big muddy puddles, right at the bottom of the path was a big gate and right behind it The Warren. I hopped across it and looked at all the trees, a lot of them weren’t green they were yellow and gold, they looked very pretty. Then I found the beach, in the summertime people come and swim here. I would like to do that but it was far too cold to swim this time, so I just had a little play. As I hopped back into town I met a very naughty dog, he stole my shoe and ran away with it, naughty, naughty dog, they were my new ones. The hop back to the van went along the river, some of the path had washed away in the rain and I had to be very careful not to fall into the river because that was running very fast. I had to hop through fields of sheep too and it was very muddy by the gates, it was very hard trying to hop with only one shoe. One of the sheep asked me if I had lost my shoe in the river and when I told her about the dog she just nodded her head and said ‘yes some dogs are very naughty, sometimes they chase the sheep and can hurt them’. I don’t like naughty dogs. If you are a dog you mustn’t chase sheep or jump up and take things that are not yours that is very naughty.

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Bunty goes to Ashford

October 17, 2013 · Filed under Adventures · Tagged , ,

peaks 026 Hello,
I have been on another adventure, this time to the Peak District where I hopped a circular hop called Ashford and Monsal Head Trail. It took me a very long time because all the paths were very muddy and slippery and I was worried I would fall down one of the big holes. I started my hop at a place called Ashford and had to hop up a big hill past lots of little houses then I had to hop across some very muddy fields. In one of the fields there was a little house that was falling down, I don’t know if it was a farm house or a barn, but I couldn’t see anyone to ask so I hopped on across lots of fields and over lot’s of stiles until I came to a place called Little Longstone which is a village with lots of stone houses, it is very pretty. There is also an old chapel called Little Longstone Congregation chapel, so I went inside to have a look. It was only little and there was a notice that said weary travelers can take a rest and have a cup pf tea, just leave a donation, and on a table there was a kettle and cups with tea and sugar and milk. I thought that was very kind. I didn’t stay because I wasn’t tired but I did put some coins in the box, because it was nice of them to think about weary travelers.

Then I hopped onto Monsal Head, then I had to hop down a lot of very big steps, which made my little legs ache, then there was a steep narrow slope with lots of slippery stones, and I got very scared. Just then a dog came running up towards me and asked if I was OK, I told him I was scared of slipping and falling. He told me he used to be scared when his people daddy first made him walk down, but now he didn’t mind it at all. He told me to take my time and to just stop when I wasn’t sure and to look at where I was going to hop and I would soon be at the bottom. So that’s what I did, it was a long way down to the bottom and onto Monsal head viaduct and when I got to the bottom my little legs were all shaky. So I had a little rest and got the map out.

The map told me I had to take a path on the right which would take me down and under the viaduct to the next part of the walk, so I found the opening and started to hop down the slope and then it disappeared, the rain had washed the path away and I couldn’t see anyway round, so I had to hop back up and go down a very steep hill to get back on the trail. This part of the trail was flat, but muddy and pasted by a little weir, which was little a little waterfall, and Hobs House. Hobs House is a rock formation high on Fin Cop. Legend says it was the house of a giant who helped farmers, but legends are just story’s so I wasn’t scared.

Then it was another hard bit a 150 ft hop up a rocky hill and through a little gate, there should have been a path here, but it was just a hill of tree roots which I had to pick my way through, then I had to hop along a very narrow trail, as I was hopping along I heard a funny sound so I turned round and there were lots of big cows following me. I stop for them to pass and they stopped, so I hopped on a little further and they followed me again. I stopped again and told them they could go past, but they told me they couldn’t, they weren’t allowed to and they turned round and went back. I hopped a little further and came to the Magpie mine sough and old mill, it still had a waterwheel but it was all rusted up and wouldn’t work. Then it was a short hop back along fields and roads to Sheepwash bridge where I fed the ducks and told them all about my long hop. They told me a lot of the trails were being washed away by the rain and people walking on them. They thanked me for the bread and as I was very tired I went home for a nap.

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Bunty goes to the Delamere Forest

July 1, 2013 · Filed under Adventures · Tagged , , , ,

Delameire 001Hello,
I have been on another adventure this time to a place called the Delamere Forest. I camped in the caravan in the middle of the forest, it was such fun, in the mornings there were lots of other bunnies hopping around. They could all hop a lot faster and higher than I can. They told me it was because they were wild rabbits and had to be able to move fast so they could hop away from foxes and birds, not birds like the birds my people family feed but birds called birds of prey. They eat little creatures!

On my first adventure I hopped around a place called Tatton Park, it is very big and there are lots of trails to follow, I hopped all of them and had a climb on a tree that had fallen over. When I had a look at the map before starting out I saw two blue blobs with the names Tatton Mere and Melchett Mere, I was curious to see what a mere was, it’s just a big pond. On Tatton Mere people were canoeing I have been canoeing it’s a lot of fun, but your paws get wet. I met some very friendly deer they told me they were Red and Fallow deer and they like living at the park because they didn’t have to worry about other animals trying to hurt them and they were fed every morning and could wander wherever they liked in the parkland, but they weren’t allowed in the gardens. The biggest deer told me his name was Darci and I told him I thought his antlers were very pretty, he said thank you and put his head down so I could take a better look. Then he told me he would lose them in the winter and grow a new set when it was spring again. Some people collect them to hang on their walls. I also met some rabbits and they showed me their burrow at the base of a tree, they told me it went all the way over to where we could see other rabbits playing, it was a very long way, they must have worked very hard digging it out and there were holes everywhere. They said it was Ok because the people who owned the land didn’t mind as long as they didn’t go into the gardens.  I was very tired and it was very hot by the time I had hopped all around the park so I went back to the caravan for a carrot and a nice long sleep.

The next day I hopped into the Delamere Forest and because I wanted to see the birds on Blakemere Moss waking up I had to be by the Moss at 7.30am which meant I had to get up very early. It was fun to see all the birds stretching their wings, but they did make a lot of noise saying good morning to each other, I tired to joint in but I couldn’t shout loud enough! I then went for a hop around the woods, and just hopped and hopped I didn’t follow any trail I was just enjoying the trees and the mosses and all the birds tweeting. When I had hopped the busy parts of the forest, I took another look at the map and decided I would like to see the Eddisbury Hillfort, it took me a long time to find it because the map didn’t give very good instructions and the signs had been over grown by trees. At the bottom of the hill I had to hop up was a field of cows, the lady cows were friendly and came over to talk to me, I told them I was looking for the hillfort and showed them the map and they told me the fort was at the top of the hill and to go through the little hole in the fence. Then the bull came over and he wasn’t very friendly at all, and didn’t want to chat. I said thank you and hopped up the hill. I found the big lump of earth where the fort would have stood and there’s a little part of the entrance been rebuild, it would be fun if they could build it all again.

I was very hot and tried and it was nearly 2.30 so I headed back to the caravan and fell asleep without eating my carrot!

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love Bunty

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Bunty goes along a canal

September 13, 2011 · Filed under Adventures · Tagged , ,

Hello,

I have been on a very long hop from Birmingham to Sandwell and Dudley, 8 miles! It was a very interesting walk I hopped past lots of very noisy factories and lots of buildings that were falling down. I had to hop down some very dark tunnels and I thought I might fall in the water, which wouldn’t have been very nice as it was very dirty. Some of the tunnels had stalactites growing in them, they are made when water and lime drips down and builds little hangy down things. As well as tunnels there were also some big bridges to hop over that made my little legs hurt. I didn’t meet any dogs but I did meet a heron who was fishing. I asked him his name and he told me he was called Herbert, then he showed me his large wings, when I admired them he spread them and showed me how he could fly. He took off and skimmed the top of the water, I thanked him and told him I thought he was very handsome and he spread his wings again.

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