Maze 2024
>> Saturday, August 31, 2024
Call in advance, they will tell you how muddy (or not) the paths are and if you need wellies, trainers or sandals. And then stick all 3 in the boot anyway!
Take a small backpack, with waterproofs, hats, and bottles of water.
Take cash - ours now takes card payments by preference, but occassionally the wifi is not great so I still recommend taking cash or be prepared to drive a long way to find an ATM!
Take a couple of pens - they will charge you for a pen.
If you want to make it easier, take a highlighter pen and mark off the paths as you go round.
Ours is totally wheel chair and pushchair accessible unless it is really really muddy. They have lots of viewing platforms and helpers, you won't lose your children (for long) no matter how hard you try and they have quick exits so you can get out to the loos and then go back in again without having to walk a million miles.
At ours there are lots of other games and mini mazes to do as well, picnic tables and plenty of parking. It is an easy, fun day out and I thoroughly recommend it for a family few hours of togetherness and exercise....oh yes and yelling at each other debating about which way to go!
As maze post tradition now dictates, here is my maze gallery:
2020 - Not open because of Covid lockdowns.
2017 - A hot year and a good crop
2016 was a bad year all round but points to us for still making the effort to go.
2014
The weather couldn't make up it's mind, warm, sunny and wet at different points of the walk.
2013
This was the best crop they'd had in a long time.
2012
Dreadful crop year. But the sunflowers meant it was still well worth seeing.
2011
The owners said it was a bad crop year. It seemed pretty tall to me, but maybe it's about the size and number of the maize itself, not just the height of the plant.
2010
The height was there but the plants were rather lame
2009
A wet year I think as we are wearing wellies.
2008 Again not too bad a height.
2007
Looks like another bad year.
Cog always reminds me that 2006 was the 'alien' year and she went with her father, not me.
2005