I live a stones throw from Hampton court palace,always wondered what could be found in the gardens around the maze.The bloke who found the necklace had only been detecting about 6 months.
I remember walking across a potato field as a kid following the plough and picking the taties,a large amount of oyster shells and some pottery shards came up,didn’t understand the significance back then,but in later years I sometimes wondered what else lies beneath that field.
Sometimes it’s not about what your eating but the whole experience.I just had a muffin and coffee sitting on a seat outside the coffee shop,couple of humming birds were working the flowers in the sun.
I watched a family of otter,adults and kits,last year living on a very small lake beside a family of beaver,I also had no idea otter would kill and eat young beaver.
Watching a program called North Woods Law,about poaching in the state of Maine,bloody hell the wardens are relentless chasing deer poachers by aeroplane,raiding houses,handing out fines,they are worse than UK gamekeepers.
Massive in the Philippines,I even saw cockfights on inter-island passenger ferries,shops that cater to it are everywhere,cockpits in every city,town,and village.
The head zoo keeper was called John I think,from memory.He told me loads of tales of catching the animals in Africa,which sounded incredible to a 15 year old Sunderland urchin with zero life experience,in hindsight the stories were bollocks and he probably never ventured past Middlesbrough.