Saturday 26 April 2008

Those pesky sheep!


This really is the absolute limit. Do you remember when our football game was ruined when the pitch was invaded by an entire flock out to graze it to within an inch of its life? Well, they are only back and as full of mischief as ever! This morning I took some friends down to the Super Slider and there they were. The whole flock monopolising the slide and not letting anyone else have a go. The thing with sheep is that they always follow the leader, so once the lead sheep had decided he wanted another go and went back up the steps he was confronted with the rear end of the last sheep. That meant the loop was completed and then we had a never ending spiral of high speed slithering wooliness.
Well, we couldn't let this go on indefinitely- a dizzy sheep is never a happy sheep, and besides we wanted to get our slide back. I went to fetch Mrs Ewe - as she is a relative, she seems to be able to reason with the flock a bit better than the rest of us, plus, being a teacher, she has a really loud voice when she wants to. She finally managed to get the sheep back into their field, where they are now happily munching a way again. Best of all, she went to see Mr Panda, and he says that because we have lost a whole days playing, we can keep the slide a bit longer. So all's well that ends well.

Friday 25 April 2008

Wheeeeeeeeee!

The most amazing thing happened today! A lorry showed up at the playing fields and unloaded lots and lots of bits of wood and steel, all painted bright colours, and looking like an enormous three dimensional jigsaw puzzle. Several hours of head-scratching later, Mr Panda had assembled it, and we realised that this was the Super Slider we had heard about. It is great fun - you go in through a little door and then climb up some spiral stairs inside it. then you come out at the top of a long whirly slide that is made of shiny and very slippery metal. It's a bit frightening at first as you go very fast and sometimes land with a bit of a bump at the end. But even the smaller animals were queuing up for another go. We kept going round and round and up and down until it was time for tea. Mr Panda says the slide (he calls it a Helter-Skelter - maybe it's Chinese?) will be staying for a whole week, so we can have as many goes as we like!

Thursday 24 April 2008

I'm back!


Sorry it's been so long since I have updated you with all goings on here in Sylvania. I had so much fun over Easter that I'm afraid I forgot all about my blog for a while. We had two birthday parties as well as all the Easter fun, so we were all very busy.

The chicks are still thriving. In fact one of them looks like he's thriving a bit too much - I'll have to keep an eye on him. he's called Kevin, and he likes his food a lot - he's always bossing the others about and insisting on his fair share - and then a bit more. Still, I don't suppose a fat chick can cause too many problems.

I was on my way down to see the Donkeys today and stopped off at the Post Office. Outside there was a very intriguing sign. What do you suppose a " Super Slider" could be? We have got a slide in the playground already, and it's lots of fun, but I think they must mean something else. We will just have to take a look tomorrow after school.