Now I'm the king of the swingers, the jungle V.I.P I reached the top and had to stop And that's what bothering me I want to be a man, man-cub, and stroll right into town And be just like those other men I'm tired of monkeying around.
I hope you weren't planning to go to the Woburn Hotel after for dinner. This lovely hotel closed due to CV, and apparently won't be reopening at all. I wanted to take my DH there for a surprise weekend for his birthday in November. ?
Apparently people might have been supplying the chimps with these items!
Many years ago my family went to a safari park. Longleat maybe. Not sure.
My father wouldn't take us in his car so my mother's Morris Traveller made the journey. Odd car with wooden slats all over it.
We used to have canoes and we had this roof rack which was padded with carpet underlay to transport the them.
We ended up totally covered with apes/baboons. Everyone was taking photos of our car. The chimps were ripping off the underlay and eating it. My mother was having a fit thinking they'd end up dying. Yelling at father to put his foot down which he clearly couldn't do
My mother was phoning the safari park for weeks after to make sure we hadn't killed them off
But I am sure baboons feel the same frustrations we do - not only “Does my bum look big in this?” but “Does the colour suit me?” You can rest assured though that the Woburn baboons are perfectly behaved as befits a ducal establishment.
Yesterday there was an article about the baboons at Knowsley in the paper. Luckily my husband missed it. Damn, it’s-in the paper again this morning and he didn’t miss it. Apparently they have somehow managed to arm themselves with all sorts of implements and are dismantling what they can. Chainsaws have been mentioned.
My DH wasn’t keen before, now he’s very very unhappy.? We are going in my car anyway because mine is old and I am not bothered about a ‘little’ damage. Hope I’ve made the right decision.
I presume that quite a few of you have had the experience in the recent past. Any horror stories? Hopefully you all had a wonderful time.