When you're living with a 21-month-old little boy with bags of energy and a limited attention span, you naturally greet very enthusiastically news of a wildlife attraction opening right on your doorstep.
It was therefore with a sense of high anticipation that the Whites entered the new Pudsey Park Visitor Centre earlier today.
And the verdict?
Well, it was alright.
Some of fish (pictured above) were quite good.
The rabbits and mice were as expected (i.e. big ears and small tails, and small ears and big tails respectively).
But I wasn't convinced the butterflies even were alive. (Maybe they were just having an understandable lie in after the clocks went forward).
Predictably enough, the swings outside - which weren't new - were by far the biggest hit of the morning with Junior.
However, beggars can't be choosers, the centre literally only opened yesterday and fair play to the Council for having a go. We'll certainly return.
One final observation.
There was also a wishing well in there where, as you might expect, you could chuck money in and hope for something exciting to happen on the way home.
There were already quite a few coins lying beneath the water, some of which I thought looked a bit strange. So I conducted a closer inspection.
And what I discovered was that the vast majority of the coins were old 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p pieces - which are no longer legal tender.
I can therefore only conclude that the age old "myth" is actually a truth - Yorkshire folk really don't throw good money away.
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