Late night excursions

That evening, Auntie Angela bundled Sweep into the car, wearing his best medal ribbons, and drove him to a very special place in preparation for his Grand Adventure to the fabled land of Cornwall. One of Auntie Angela's cubs had to be collected from a place called Sunderland - Sweep had heard scary tales about this place, but he was sure that Auntie Angela wouldn't take him anywhere dangerous.

The Angela-Cub wasn't quite finished playing gentle lullabies to the small children of Sunderland, so Auntie Angela took Sweep to a theme park. It was a kind of a zoo where you could sit with a coffee and watch the wildlife. The wildlife were sitting in their cars and playing loud dance music. Bang bang bang it went, like a truckload of wheelie bins being tipped into a large container full of garage doors. Sweep thought it was such fun to think that noises which could be made by demented howler monkeys were sold to the strange wild humans so they could hear them again and again. What larks!

Sweep asked Auntie Angela what the theme park was called. "It's called McDonald's" she said. "If we wait a while longer we might see the ceremony of 'throwing the rubbish out of the car window' and then the display of 'seeing how much tyre squeal we can make'. It's such fun!"

Sweep wasn't sure, so he pulled his ears over his eyes and said to Auntie Angela "wake me up when it's over". It was the strangest evening he'd ever had. (And that's saying something - he lives with the Millers!)