We took my younger son, Sam, to a butterfly reserve near Rotheram today where I got to test out my new camera…

My new camera

Not bad, eh?

The highlight for Sam wasn’t, as I expected, seeing all the other animals they had on site such as owls, skunks, parrots, rabbits, an alpaca and various birds of prey.  Instead it was a board where you had to press buttons to give the answer to a question – the fun being that, if you pressed the wrong button, you were sprayed with a jet of water.  Sam thought this was hilarious and kept pressing the wrong button again and again just so he could get soaked!

Sam gets soaked

We dried him off in the cafe where I was delighted to have someone come over and ask, “Excuse me, are you the person that writes the Scream Street books?”  It turns out her daughters had seen me at the Bag-A-Book event in Sheffield, back in October.  I grinned all the way home!

Tommy

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