Animals On Our Travels

Travelling around checking out new Northumberland holiday cottages and updating the photographs of current cottages in the Northumbria Byways brochure, it is amazing the variety of unusual animals we see on our journeys.

Something small and beige shot across the road in front of the car the other day with it’s tail in the air. It reminded me of a dodgem car at a funfair when I was little. The tail, which had a black tip, looked just like the pole which goes up from the dodgem car to the mesh above which I suppose is electrified as sparks appear as the car moves forward. We decided between us it was a stoat or weasel. We drove a few more miles and came across a badger by the side of the road, unfortunately it was not moving very swiftly. No prizes for guessing what had happened to it.

That day our destination was The Granary in Sharpeton village in the Northumberland National Park. There is a farm just as you approach the village and they have Llamas. What strange animals they are - they have a very superior look about them.

These two in the photo look like an old married couple, one has a bad fitting wig, puckering up to apply her lipstick and the other bushy eyebrows and a beard, wondering where he has left his newspaper!