Guess it's time I cut the graas

No, but seriously. One little Canadian girl disappointed today as she has developed a bad cough and we had to cancel our camping trip. The Safari Park was the means of sweetening the pill. I really dislike the whole thing: animals in captivity, the money grabbing nature of such organisations and the paid for pleasure rather than kids playing imaginatively. But I do love the tiger. He is magnificently detached and imperious. Or she is. No way am I getting close enough to find out which ( although there is something about him - surely it must be him? - which makes me want to fling myself over the 20 feet of chain link and the two electric fences and shout, 'Take me! Take me!')