A Conservation day...

Well Gabby is really interested in the environment, wildlife and conservation. She has already planned that when she is older, for her holidays, she is going to hire a house-boat and go collecting litter alongside the canals! Amazing I know, she has such a vision for her future, and is already saving for her 'mansion'!!  So I looked into doing some conservation work, I thought it would be interesting for us all.  I found a little group, and found the day and time it met and planned to just go along. My expectations were a few little old people wearing fleeces and waterproofs, with good strong hiking boots and flasks, but nay it wasn't to be. When we arrived there was a bunch of men who looked like they were there for community service. I was worried. So were the girls. Sophie tried a few different excuses, "I'm tired, my allergy is starting, can we go another time", even I was thinking of trying to escape, but I didn't, I filled in the forms and drove to the site.  When they had all unloaded and had their 'stone-age' tools in hand, I was very scared. One man looked very much like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, and was wielding a small sickle, and the rest just looked like the group from 'One flew over the Cuckoo's nest'.  Twas bizarre.  We decided to stick to the 2 older gents who looked normal and spent the next 2 hours shovelling shhh..manure.  It was boiling hot and hard work, but it was interesting to listen to some tales from the teacher who had built walls with buffalo poo! I smiled at one guy, but he confused me, cause both his eyes were looking at the end of his nose, like, all the time, so I didn't know if he could actually see me or not. We spoke to a lovely  very English and very posh lady, who told us lots of interesting things but had no tone or intonnation to her voice at all, which was just strange, and because she kept talking about having new blood on the team, and bats, she worried me. At lunchtime everyone stopped for a cuppa. I tried to be friendly with Jack Nicholson telling him he had done well working in that heat, he told me it was going to snow by the end of the week, then that aliens were going to be landing soon, then that huge amounts of spacecraft debris would be falling to earth really shortly.  We left.