Pets Corner, Oulton Broad, Suffolk

11/6/2010

What is there to do in Beccles? Turns out not much. Last friday me and Lucy went to visit our friend Beth who has just moved house. She is the first one out of our group of friends to do the marriage/house thing so we always get excited to go to her house as it is far nicer than our crappy, rundown student houses. After a detour where we ended up in tesco's rather than at her house (they share postcodes apparently) we arrived and Beth showed us around Beccles. After lunch - where Beth pretty much threw lasagne in Lucy's eyes - we went for a walk by the river. It was grey and miserably overcast, but we saw some cool boats and tried to avoid being chased by geese. We also played in the kids playground - dont judge us! You know you would do it too.

In the park

By the river

After all that excitement, we went back to Beth's, well we tried. It was the first time she has used her new door key and it wouldn't work. We all tried - god knows we tried, then we resorted to recruiting her neighbours (great first impression she made I'm sure!). After about an hour of turning the key, the neighbour decided we weren't just useless girls but that we were actually right after all, so he tried to try and open the window from the outside - needless to say, this failed too. We were stuck on the door step till Josh came home - three hours later.

Man trying to brake into Beths house

Rather than wait,we went on an expedition, and ended up at pets corner in Oulton Broad. Pets corner is literally in a corner - its in the corner of a car park - but it was awesome! Only £3 to get in and there were loads of animals: chinchillas, lemars, hens, snakes, goats, a pony, meerkats, rabbits etc and we brought some pet food for 25p. It was better than a lot of the actual zoo's I've been too.

Pets corner, in the corner of the car park

Snowy

We saw chickens get cooked

Lucy loved the lemars and chinchillas, and Beth got too excited when she realised that all the animals were for sale. Then we went to the goat pen, and everything we had seen up until that point was eclipsed by the sheer cuteness of three very tiny baby goats. They looked like they had just been born but the boys in charge (literally boys they looked about 8, with very very strong suffolk accents) told us they were about a year old. I'm not sure if I believe them on not.

BABY GOATS!!

Guinea Pigs

The goats were nice, when you feed them they lick the food off your hands rather than bite it off, which made me laugh, but good god did they smell. It wasn't even a nice animal smell it was rank. I imagine its how pure evil would smell. It was so bad it actually put me off trying to kidnap one of the baby goats.

Then we saw a pony called Princess. I loved princess, someone had plaited her mane and she looked really sad and ashamed, I don't think it was consentual plaiting. We saw some meerkats too, but they were pretty dull.

I love princess

We then went back to Beths and had a BBQ, we made brownies and Beth coloured in a picture she had brought for £1 in 'Gary's Bargains'. Inside Beth is five. I love Beth.

Josh being manly by the BBQ, Beths picture is at the front