On Easter Monday, wanting an outing but not wanting to drive or to visit a hot spot on a bank holiday, settled, for the first time for a long time, for Horton Country Park - but see reference 1. A place which turned out to be quite busy with dog walkers and joggers, although not much activity was to be heard from the sometimes loud and toffish polo boys at the next door equestrian centre.
Some signs of chain saw activity, with lots of woodland management going on. Some signs of hedge layering.
Visit closed by walking down the path by the side of the children's farm, now called Hobbledown, where what we got for free was llamas, alpacas and a large pot bellied pig. Proper pig glimpsed in the distance.
To judge by their website, the Hobbledown people are working the farm a lot harder than the more cooperative/charity types who used to work it. See reference 2.
PS: before the charity types got it, the farm was run by the nearby mental hospitals, mainly as occupational therapy for their patients, otherwise apt to be idle and bored, before therapy of this sort got banned as a result of union intervention. Intervention which claimed to be about patient rights and welfare.
Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/horton-country-park.html.
Reference 2: http://www.hobbledown.com/.
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