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Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later but Jake made it to the rabbit hutch when he was playing in the garden and thought “maybe my baby bunny wants a run around!” and, he did. He jumped straight through the gap in the fence and vanished to the fields beyond.

It’s a bit sad really as Jake was quite attached to the little fella but the bunny was just getting to the age where he was getting a bit boisterous and I think he’s now hunting around the local fields for a lady bunny to seduce.

Well, the other week I finally succumbed and we all headed into York to look at some puppies Caroline had found on Gumtree. She’d wanted a puppy for a while now and I wasn’t too sure but when she showed me the pictures I was swayed and phoned up to arrange to go and see them.

When we went to check them out they had a total of six puppies with only one of them taken which was quite a surprise as they’d been advertised for a while and they were incredibly cute (and cheap too). The dad is a Cocker Spaniel and the mum is a Parson Terrier so the puppies aren’t going to be too big and they have a really inquisitive and playful temperament. All of the puppies were black with little white bibs and a few had short terrier ears and a few had big, floppy spaniel ears.

With a long weekend booked off from work we decided to all hop in the car and head up to the Yorkshire coast for the day. We headed out past York (sat in the rush hour traffic for about an hour) and then sped up the A64 towards Scarborough. We split from the main traffic and headed over to Filey–a bit quiter than Scarborough or Bridlington.

We managed to park up right by the beach and headed down for a look around. After a quick tour of the beach we set off for Filey town in search of a cash machine and a bucket-n-spade shop for Jake. On our travels through the town centre we even stumbled on a small Italian deli where we stocked up on fresh Ciabbata and olives for a slightly more sophisticated picnic.

We were in the garden the other weekend doing a bit of work re-seeding the lawn now all the weeds have died back and Jake started shouting that he’d found some “creepy things”. Not quite sure what he had found, we went to investigate what appeared to be a big mound of soil next to the greenhouse.

As we got closer we noticed it was covered in ants! It appears that one whole half of the nest had slid off revealing the network of tunnels inside.

The ants didn’t look best pleased by this and they were scurrying frantically trying to recover all of the eggs that had rolled out of the main chambers. Just before hosing the whole lot down I managed to grab some quick photos of the ants at work…