Belly Up*

Am not sick last night and sleep well so that’s a relief.

Have an excellent morning with Mum at Whipsnade. It’s freezing 🥶: eight degrees and cloudy. We arrive at ten o’clock and the park is empty. Take my proper camera 📸 out for the first time since our last trip to Whipsnade in the summer when Lockdown was paused – so most of my photos are on there.

We have brilliant views of the lions 🦁, rhinos 🦏, hippos 🦛 and elephants 🐘. The camels 🐫, yak, alpacas 🦙, marabou storks, cheetahs, white rhinos 🦏, zebras 🦓 and tigers 🐅 are on my camera.

We sit outside at a picnic 🧺 table to eat our packed lunch: egg 🥚 sandwiches 🥪 and cut up carrots 🥕 and cucumber 🥒.

Mum buys me some tiger 🐯, lion 🦁 and zebra 🦓 socks 🧦 in the shop and two Zoo pencils ✏️.

I’m Really Proud of myself for managing So Much walking. Feel so happy at Whipsnade with all my animals.

The vet phones when we get home. Fluffball is allowed out tomorrow so that’s good: he’s been moping around the house all week.

Tomorrow I have a pre-radiotherapy scan at the hospital 🏥 and Personal Training at one o’clock.

Happy Wednesday everyone!

*2010. By Stuart Gibbs. Children’s mystery novel in which Teddy Fitzroy and his friends investigate the suspicious death of a hippo.