As you know, Old Macdonald’s Farm is not just a farm but is a zoo too, and coming up from May 24th to May 31st is Love Your Zoo Week in which we will be participating along with other members of the prestigious British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

Now we know you love Old Macdonald’s Farm and Old Macdonald loves your money too, but if you visit the special website www.loveyourzoo.co.uk you can download a money off voucher to come and visit us, and remember this week includes school half term and only 7 days later Peppa Pig too! What a great time to come and Love Your Zoo and Peppa Pig as well, thought not necessarily in that order!

Here we have some wonderful images sent by visitors to the farm. First of all from Mrs Christine Allport. We first found this on our Facebook page, and we congratulate Chris on this layout. She tells us that ‘Touched By A Butterfly’ is the designer of the scrapbook kit. If anyone is interested in purchasing the scrapbook kit it is in store here:

http://berryapplicious.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_208&products_id=2813

We love this fun image and look forward to Chris et al returning.

You can view more of Chris’ designs on http://chrisallportdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/

and also her full Old Macdonald’s layout on

http://chrisallportdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/another-layout-with-shelbys-farm-by.html

Both are well worth a look.

Now some photos from our friend Katie who was here on work experience in the freezing months of January and February and who will be returning this summer, when we hope it will be warmer!

We appreciate all our volunteers who love the farm and who we work really hard!

We love to hear from our visitors, whether good or bad (well, we prefer good but criticism is helpful actually but praise is comforting!) so were delighted with the email below from Francesca whose son’s party was held here last Sunday.

Francesca and her family really took to the farm, and decorated the room with balloons. Each party bag they prepared had its own balloon too and the entire group were a pleasure to welcome. Old Macdonald was only disappointed he did not get any of the birthday cake….we stopped him from pinching a slice.

Hi there,

I just wanted to say a big thank you to all the team today who helped to give my son and our party guests a fantastic day. The lady who helped us today (on the front desk) was attentive, helpful, friendly and informative. She is a great ambassador for your company and we are very grateful for her help to create a stress free party! We didn’t catch her name but, she was the organiser of Party room 1!

We will be recommending your party services to friends!

Many thanks

Francesca

Thank you Francesca and we look forward to seeing you all here again very soon. Hide any cakes you bring though, Old Macdonald is a greedy old farmer!

Well this time to see some of your farmyard friends as young photographer Jessica saw them Old Macdonald wanted to attach some of the hundreds of images she took on her recent visit to our farm.

Jessica has a love for animals and a talent for photographing them, so we thank her for sending these and allowing us to share them with you all.