Bear Pit

My youngest son Paul is 23 to day, another year of him not being at home for his birthday, at least this year he is in a safer place than last year when he was in Iraq.
At the moment he is running around Brecon Beacons doing a series of tests to become a Corporal. Only another 7 weeks to go and he's doing well.
Happy Birthday son

See you tomorrow
love you
Mum
xxx

This evening after work and took the dogs for a walk in Eastham woods.

This bear pit once was the home of two brown bears, this pit was one of many cages in the Victorian Zoo which stood here. They housed seals, polar bears, lions, leopards, zebrsa, camels, tropical birds and monkeys.

The pit was designed to look like a cave and originally had a dome of railing over the top to keep the bears in and the people out.

People used to come from miles to see this and to enjoy the fair that stood here too.

Had chips and a pint before coming home, not had a lot of time this week for catching up so will do over the next couple of days

Another couple of shots from today here and here

My weekend starts NOW