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A couple of days ago my family visited Bocketts Farm Park in Leatherhead – the award-winning, working family farm that really warrants a couple of days rather than just one, since there’s so much on offer. While I thoroughly recommend this animal petting farm, I don’t feel quite the same warmth towards some of the visitors, who clearly don’t see the need to retrieve and bin dropped toilet and hand tissue – as my pictures show. There’s simply no excuse! 
  
With it being the hottest day of the year, staff were having to pull out all the stops to keep everything running smoothly and they did a great job so in my view deserved more support than ever. We didn’t see any spillages or rubbish lying around and we wondered whether this was because of the many children-engaging recycling and general rubbish bins dotted around the place. Why is it that this excellent impression changed when we had a look around the washroom? 

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The farm had excellent educational signage on good handwashing and drying practices along with how to dispose of different types of rubbish. And as public washrooms go, this one was well looked after, with no unflushed loos or seats that had been dripped on or smeared prior to any of my family’s visits – so well done general public on that score! But why spoil a good thing by littering? Farms such as this one aren’t just fun days out, they’re places in which our little ones learn a great deal about farming practices and the various animals. Surely a responsible parent should extend this learning experience to the washroom, showing those that at this stage still emulate them, how to behave responsibly? This means not only making a point of picking up their own dropped tissue and explaining why as they’re doing so, but also instructing their charges to do the same. If we teach children when they’re very small, how to look after our environment and respect the cleaning staff, they’re more likely to influence their less savvy peers and carry their good work into adulthood, don’t you think?
 

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Jan Hobbs

1st August 2024




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