I was so excited once I woke up on Tuesday morning, because we (Primaries 3 – 7)  were going on a school trip to the Sandness Mill and Turriefield.  I had never been to either of them so to me it was going to be one big adventure.

Once I arrived at school I was told we were to leave at quarter to 10, so before we left we did a little maths on symmetry, a few minutes later I was told to grab everything I needed because we were going.  I was really excited and happy.

When we arrived at the Sandness Mill we were greeted by two people, one called Gary and one called Louise.  They told us we were going to be split into two groups.  I was in group one with a few other people and everybody else was in group two.  Group one was with Gary and group two was with Louise.  After that we followed Gary into the mill, first he showed us the weaving loom machine.  It was very noisy and it was so noisy some people had to wear headphones!  Every hour they could have 6 jackets made, I bet you couldn’t do that with your needles!

Gary showed us a few other machines too one of them was the carding machine that makes ‘oo’ into yarn – WOW.  He also showed us a room full of ‘oo’.  The ‘oo’ was very springy and quite spongy. Gary said it also felt all soft like snowflakes.  He told us the ‘oo’ had 3 baths but they were way too hot for us but just right for cleaning the ‘oo’.  They could also dye the ‘oo’, they could make lots of colours and Shetland colours too.  There were lots of other machines like the jumper making machine and they said the Fair Isle was the most complicated and this is two of the most interesting things that one of the machines was 100 years old and another thing was the Sandness Mill is the only place in the whole of Europe where you can see the whole process from ‘oo’ to woolly jumpers and the finished product is also sold in the shop.

                                           

 

Sandness mill was marvellous and I called it the Super Sandness Mill.  I was sad to leave but happy because … Next up Transition Tuffiefield.

 

 

Before we went to Turriefield we went to a beach to eat our snack.

The waves were massive. 

I had an apple and once I had finished it we were off on the bus again.

I was very excited once I heard all of everyone else’s comments about Turriefield.  We were greeted by two people, one called Penny and one called Alan.  First they took us to see the turkeys –   gobble gobble  

up next was Harvey the horse.  We got to pet his nose

then they showed us a few different tools and let us try to lift the heavy steel weed cutter and ploughs

(they were  quite heavy). 

They also showed us the vegetables they grew.  They grew melons, garlic, beetroot, kale, chillies, peppers, leeks, marrows, sweetcorn, peas and a few other things

  ( I almost forgot about pumpkins and broccoli and aubergines). Also they showed us inside the politunnels and said they (by they I mean two of them) are jungles then they showed us the ducks and explained a bit about Turriefield.  Back up at the shed they gave us all

peas in a pod to try .  They were outstanding.  So good I called Turriefield Terrific Turriefield and it certainly was.  I was very sad to go I had a spectacular trip.

I would definitely do that trip again.  Some of the highlights of the trip was looking at all the food, trying the peas and learning how to dye the ‘oo’ and the big room that was full of it!

But now I was back on the way back to the school and by this time I was very hungry but I was lucky because once we arrived back at the school we were going to have our lunch.

At the school I ate my lunch and then I had my break.  At break I wrote Peerie Filskit Tammie and when I got home I told my mam all about it.

I felt happy and excited for our next trip.

By Eva