Hands-on – if you’re brave enough!

26th November, 2009

What a great way for the boarders to spend a wet Sunday evening! The 22nd November saw the return of Simon Airey, our local exotic pet expert.

He arrived at Packwood with an enormous variety of weird and wonderful creatures and spoke about them with massive enthusiasm. Interesting enough you may think, but it gets much better than that; Simon is totally relaxed about the children handling the animals so snakes, lizards, spiders, scorpions, chinchillas, giant millipedes, cockroaches, frogs, toads and a half grown rat, 50 cm long, were handed around amongst the audience like a game of pass the parcel. The children were fascinated by Simon’s talk, had innumerable questions for him and couldn’t wait to get their hands on the animals.

The evening was a great success - educational, fun and for some folk, like Mrs Jones, very challenging!