Small children -wet day. Not a recipe for a comfortable life for the grand parents but in the Borders we have the good fortune to have a kids paradise at East Link Family Park near Dunbar. East Lothian admittedly but within 30 miles of Hutton. Strongly recommended for those who love pedalling cars, feeding exotic animals, guzzling cakes, throwing horseshoes, riding a model railway, cavorting on hay stacks. Children will love it too. Some of the notices are a bit bossy if not downright. misleading: it would have taken us hours to sit on all the toys there being so many. A bit like the notice on the Tube at the top of the Escalators: 'Dogs must be carried at all times'. No dog about your person and you can't get anywhere?

And some signs were a trifle weird-we for 4 saw no-one being crapped on unexpectedly. The art for sale-Poop Art was refreshingly original. And it was fun touring the park in a four person pedal powered buggy which, boringly, only 'adults' were allowed to control.

At £6 for everything it is a real bargain. Back tomorrow?  ¶ 3:37 PM