00:00 So my name is Doug Douglas and I own Avon Valley Adventure Park and we're based just
00:05 outside of Bristol and I spend my life trying to think of crazy new things to entertain
00:11 families in the Bristol area.
00:15 And tell us one of these exciting new things that is happening this spring.
00:21 Well we have a candy cannon which is, as you can imagine, it joins up sweets and a cannon
00:30 and we load a cannon full of sweets and fire it over the kids heads and they flutter down
00:34 and the kids go crazy picking them up.
00:36 So that's one of my bizarre crazy ideas.
00:41 And you have some four-legged friends coming to visit.
00:43 Tell me about that.
00:45 Oh yes, May Bank Holiday, so the 4th of May, is going to be an exciting day.
00:53 So we have Bluey and Bingo coming to the park which is going to be epic.
01:00 Not only have we got Bluey and Bingo, we also run a normal day out.
01:03 So you can ride the train, you can drive mini jeeps, you can see Dino Valley, you can do
01:06 all the other amazing things that we do.
01:09 And during the Bluey and Bingo May weekend, we're going to be doing some dog agility courses.
01:15 So if you think your dog is up for a bit of agility, not quite on the crufts level, but
01:21 let's see, then you can come down and use our dog agility course that we're going to
01:24 put in here.
01:25 So it's going to be really cool.
01:26 And tell us a little bit about your other animals.
01:29 Obviously it's spring, so you've had the birth of some lambs.
01:34 Tell us about that.
01:35 Yeah, so we always do sort of a lambing live event and what we try and do, it takes quite
01:43 a bit of work, is we try and time our ewes to give birth at a particular time, which
01:51 is the school holidays.
01:52 So hopefully we then have a lamb giving birth every day.
01:56 And that worked pretty well for the first week.
01:59 The weather got dreadful and all the lambs just went, get these lambs out of me.
02:05 So they gave birth pretty quickly when it got cold.
02:09 So we've now got a barn full of baby lambs jumping around.
02:13 At the Blue Inbinger weekend, they're going to be out in one of our paddocks because we're
02:16 going to be letting them out.
02:17 And that's really cool to watch lambs getting out into the field, running around.
02:21 We're in a very weird time.
02:23 We're kind of coming out of COVID, but we're very much in the cost of living crisis.
02:28 What will a day out to Avon Valley bring to people in Bristol?
02:33 You can come and just, that is your day.
02:36 So we're really conscious that the cost of living is hitting people and we're trying
02:40 to do everything we can to keep ourselves as flexible as possible.
02:43 The live dinosaurs roaming around the site.
02:45 We basically turned the whole park into this huge, epic Jurassic dino park.
02:51 That's May.
02:52 And then the summer we go crazy with, we've got a massive water slide coming in to the
02:57 end of the park.
02:58 Again, we just go a bit Avon Valley crazy.
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