Flippingnowe Hall

[(Professor Emeritus)Professor Paul]

If you must keep whales, keep them in big groups. The fish bill is horrendous though

 

 

[Ashea]

What a change you have made to the old place Paul! Just be thankful the keepers didn't leave the dino gates open..

[(Professor Emeritus)Professor Paul]

A few miles away from Flippingnowe Hall is the Shortleat Safari Park, established in 1966 by the Marquess of Bathroom. It's well worth a visit just to see their unusual combinations of animals living peaceably together. Here you can see the Asian Black Bears & Grey Wolves enjoying their paddock!

[Fern]

Out of curiosity how come you never merge the terrain?

Am following with interest.

[(Professor Emeritus)Professor Paul]

I do not know; I have a feling it may be a side effect of using Zootans hack

[(Professor Emeritus)Professor Paul]

Lord Bathroom tends to go for the big carnivores; just as he copied Woburn by mixing black bears & wolves, he's also copied them by having bongos in his monkey jungle. He's also mixed his larger bears, like they used to at Blair Drummond Wildlife Park, but his lions & tigers are kept apart.

[caddienoah]

How interesting!!! It must be the British bloodlines...

[(Professor Emeritus)Professor Paul]

Back at the Hall, we've been pondering what to do with the small carnivores. Then Spasm had a brainwave. Next to the old castle was a monastery dedicated to the little known monastic order of St Godfrey the Incontinent. You may not have heard of St Godfrey, not many people have. His is an interesting tale, dating back to Arthurian times.

 

St Godfrey was a mild mannered old friar in the service of Sir George Mainwaring. A weakness of bladder meant he was constantly away from his duties as chaplain to Sir George. As a punishment for his dereliction, Godfrey was forbidden to leave the chapel except once a day to perform his ablutions. The story goes that during the border wars a wild eyed Scot called Fraser was captured near Walmington Castle by a young pikeman. The sergeant at arms, Wilson de Wette, took Fraser before Sir George .

 

Fraser prophesied doom to the castle as a huge force of Picts & Scots were heading south to attack.The battle began the next night, the castle gates were shut & they prepared for a siege.

 

In the third week the Scots army brought up their trebuchets and began to bombard the castle with greek fire. The castle was defenceless, and Godfrey was so busy praying for deliverance for the castle that for the length of the siege. The greek fire began to take hold, threatening all within & beginning to weaken the walls. Suddenly, when all seemed darkest, Godfrey appeared on the battlements, and uttered a mighty groan. Suddenly, by some miracle, a torrent began to pour forth from the battlements, sweeping every downwards & dousing the flames. Then, sparkling gold in the light of the flames, it rushed out of the castle gates, sweeping the Scots army away, just as an army led by Sir Walker De Spivve arrived to lift the siege.

 

But Godfrey had given his life to save the castle & with a mighty groan of releif he collapsed & passed away.

The tale was passed down from generation to generation , & eventually at the time of the crusade Cardinal Farthing persuaded the Pope to canonise Godfrey for the miracle. Godfrey became the patron saint of the Mainwaring family, & when the fifth Sir George Mainwaring left on the crusades a relictuary containing the ashes of St Godfrey went ahead of his army, as the Mainwarings always ensured after the siege that Godfrey went before.

 

The order raised by Papal decree in his name was particularly distinguished by requiring the monks to keep their legs crossed at all times & as a result it was never popular.

Anyway, all that aside, we decided to restore the old cloisters for the small carnivores.

[Firehawke]

Love the whales!

[Fern]

ROFL Do I sense shades af Dad's Army in that cast?