Stonehenge and Diddly Squat Farm

Today we went to Diddly Squat Farm. It is run by the famous Jeremy Clarkson. He is from an old British TV show about cars called Top Gear. Him and two others test and race cars. He became a farmer after his farmer retired leaving no one to look after his farm. Jeremy had a genius idea that he could run the farm. His farm manager has been nicknamed Cheerful Charlie by Jeremy because Charlie always gives him bad news about something he has done wrong.

Because of him being so famous, many people come to his farm shop. We'd heard about queues of up to 2 hours long, so many had decided to be there before the opening of the shop (at 0930). That's why we left early from home and got to Diddley Squat Farm just before 9am after a 1 hr and 45 min drive.

When we got there the line was about fifty people long but when we left it was maybe three hundred people long and the car park was chaos.

We got into the shop and bought some bacon, tomatoes, and some smelly f***ers. A smelly f***er is something that you melt in a oil burner and it produces a nice smell.

We had breakfast at the lambing shed that was turned into a restaurant. Mama and I had bacon sandwiches while Papa had a sausage sandwich. I also had frozen cow juice which was soft serve ice cream.

We then went home for a while to put our shopping in the fridge, and then we went to Stonehenge. We had tickets for 4.30pm.

Even though Stonehenge is not the world's only stone circle nor the biggest it is by far the most famous. We drove to the visitor centre which was under a huge rain cover.

We got onto the bus that took us to the henge. While on the bus we got good views of the weird mounds in the ground. We later found out that there were people buried under there.

Stonehenge was built four and a half thousand years ago (neolithic age) and is one of the most mysterious things on the planet. It is mysterious because there are big stones on top of other stones and they did not have cranes back then. I wonder how it was built. Maybe aliens made it or giants? But if humans made it, it is very strange and very advanced for 4,500 years ago! Another thing is that the stones form a perfect circle and certain stones mark where the sun sets at the solstices and equinoxes. The equinoxes are when the time of day and night are exactly the same amount of time and the solstices are when the night (winter solstice) or day (summer solstice) is the longest it will ever be. Both happen twice a year. So maybe the people who built it used it as a calendar? It is very weird and well planned.

Stonehenge is a very busy tourist attraction but we managed to avoid the crowds by arriving late in the afternoon. We were still at the stones at 6:30pm and just about had the place to ourselves!

One of the stones had a sort of unicorn horn on it sticking out of the top of the stone. I asked a guard what it was for. He said it was like the world's first Lego set because the stones on top had a hole in it and they slotted together, giving the structure strength just like Lego.

We sat at a bench for an hour overlooking the stones. It was very calming and two rabbits hopped by. For a while we all sat with our shoes and socks off with our feet touching the grass. It was very nice to be in sync with nature.

We took lots of photos but lots had other people in them as the bench we were sitting at was about twenty meters away from the henge and just about all the time people were in that twenty meters.

At the gift shop Mama bought me a giant lemon flavoured lollypop and a Horrible Histories book about the stone age.

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