I took 3 year old DD to Ipswich town centre on an Owl trail today, which was supposed to be the last day. Only to find they’d removed the giant painted owls this morning. We could have gone yesterday but chose today instead as the event was advertised as ending today, on 3rd Sept. Disappointed is a total understatement. I don’t think we’re the only ones.
It was a fundraising event run by a local charity. I also did a 30 minutes detour this morning to a charity shop in another town to buy the trail map for £1 and my sister had paid for the app to show us where the owls were that we could have seen if we’d gone yesterday but not today :-(
They we’re also selling a load of owl related crap at the town hall, none of which we felt like buying as we hadn’t actually got to see the blimin owls.
Apparently transport for the owls could only be arranged for today.
My feelings are that, whether it’s a charity or not, whoever was in charge of the event has monumentally f*#%ed up and needs to be sacked for not doing their job properly and organising for the owls to be removed on the correct date. Surely it’s not that hard 🤷🏻♀️