T-Bird Anni Rides Again

Well we have been busy….

Sunday wasn’t quite the day we had planned…. Duke’s phone rang early (ish) in the morning due to a cock up with booking medical cover at Oulton and hence I ended up working  until 2:30 in the afternoon which meant we left for our camping holiday several hours later than planned. Pitching the tent up is remarkably easy without a gale blowing, torrential rain hammering down and a remarkably flat pitch to play with.

Monday and Tuesday revolved around a complicated game played by the children and several gallons of tea drank by the adults.  The central focus of it all being the fire circle.  Upon this altar several tonnes of wood from varying sources was sacrificed to the Great Fire God.  Accolytes of various ages ensured that the sacrifices were fed constantly to the altar fire to appease the apetites of said Great Fire God.  I am quite confident that this is what ensured the rather lovely weather with which we were blessed.

Wednesday was Butser day.  It was a lovely day, we had a go at various skills, one of which was the skill of not making excessive fun of the school marm who was giving us the tour.  Poor woman, she was doing her best… she just wasn’t quite ready for us load of scoundrels!

Tiredness started to get the better of certain small people by the end of the day which resulted in some fairly disgraceful behaviour from Aprilia. Sigh.  I’m reasonably confident that she won’t try the "be friends with us again or we won’t give you your stick back" line again   Never did like games involving points arbitarily awarded.

Which brings us to today.  She emerged from her pit looking more tired than when she had gone to bed and only seemed capable of playing with C who thankfully was up for some quieter play too so they had what appears to have been a pleasant morning building a whole new den somewhere removed from disputed territory (never got to the bottom of that neither… something to do with multiple dens being made by differing groups who were running raiding parties to nick building materials off each other.  Sigh)  But anyway, we packed up in a leisurely fashion, tootled home with a stop on the way for Little Scoff lunch and was home in time to unpack and even for me to get to Kung Fu which was a bonus as Jason is looking for staff which could just help balance the books a bit better