Children from the Leotie daycare centre answer their teacher’s questions:

“Hi, we’re from the Leotie daycare centre, and we often come to the park. We see a lot of animals here like squirrels, sparrows, and ravens. And sometimes we have a picnic here.”

“What do you like about our park?”

“The fountain and the church and the waterfall and the great ducks. I pester my granny, because she wants to roast a mummy duck. I say, “Roast a papa duck. If you don’t and if I have to pluck a mummy duck, I’ll have a fit.”

“My favourite things are the lake and the ducks and the waterfall.”

“The best things are all the animals that live here in the forest, and the grass to roll on, and the carousel on the playground. I found great stones at the lake where the wall is, and the meadow here is really good. And the lake is great too, the playground, and many other things. Everything here is great.”

“Everything here is great, but mainly the playground and the animals.”

“I like everything.”

“What don’t you like so much about the park?”

“…that there’s plastic lying around and the animals then eat it and people ruin nature and throw out nappies and plastic and then also cut down trees. The trees should naturally grow the way they want, but shouldn’t plop into the lake. And I don’t want weeds to grow in our garden, or that the animals eat and get fat and have to be slaughtered or die from a big disease.”

“And I don’t like it when people don’t take their own rubbish away.”

“What else would you like to say?”

“…that [I don’t like it]; when someone takes a dog for a walk and the dog goes poo-poo and the person doesn’t take it away.”

“And I don’t like it when they throw their rubbish in nature, on purpose. Why are there rubbish bins? I’ve been wondering that for a long time.”