On Saturday, when we had driven down to Salisbury, it was gloomy and cloudy and misty and dull and cold.
On Sunday we woke up to find it warm and sunny and still and lovely.
Which was lucky, because it was Gwen's birthday and we were planning to take her to Monkey World, near Wareham, about an hour's drive from her place. Not somewhere you would want to go and a cold, grey and misty day.
That scooter that Barb, Greg, The Builder and I gave her for Christmas is something of a Godsend. It opens up lots of different places for us to take her when we go out. You would definitely not have wanted to push her around in her wheelchair somewhere like Monkey World. The scooter renders places that are hilly visitable.
So we met Barb and Greg there and we had chips for lunch and then we ambled off in the sunshine to admire the monkeys and chimpanzees and orang utans and marmosets and other primates. We had ice cream for afternoon tea. Gwen had fun trying to master her scooter - she has never driven a car and while I think the rest of us could have worked out the scooter quite quickly, to Gwen it was something of a mystery. She kept running up against the kerb when trying to go around corners. And she didn't realise that the "accelerator" on the handle of the scooter adjusts the speed (there is also a speed dial on the scooter itself) and if she gripped the handle particularly firmly she tended to disappear off in a puff of power! On the whole, though, she had a really great day - a birthday well celebrated.
On Monday, when we headed back home, the clouds burbled in and the temperature dropped and it all got a bit gloomy again.
Extremely lucky with the weather on Sunday!
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| Monkey World. Click on the picture to go to the album |
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