Got a photo backlog, so grab a cup of tea.
Easter... we dyed eggs using food coloring and shaving foam. It didn't work too well, but the kids were pleased and, well, the eggs smelled nice and masculine.
For UK Mother's Day I got a very nice breakfast in bed with a homemade card and ornament.
A few weeks ago, we went to a farm in Surrey with animals to pet and a huge outdoor playground.
I have no pictures of the kids actually playing (we went with another family and their trio) but here's the aftermath:
I built a playhouse (plastic, flat-pack) in the garden. Humphrey the classroom bear came home with E to enjoy our home life for a weekend.
We visited Kew, multiple times. Went yesterday, in fact, and traipsed to one of the far corners and saw a tower we'd never seen up close, plus the bamboo garden. Here's C on a swing in the playground.
And that brings us to today. We went to visit the Bekonscott Model Village. There's a scaled-down train that takes you for a short ride through the grounds. Here's E, C and their cousin S enjoying:
Then we traipsed through the model village itself. It was a wonder of detail, and frozen in the '20s/'30s or thereabouts. Of course, many small model trains ran through the place, under bridges, through detailed stations, etc. The children paused many times just to watch....
E found the signal box.
So much detail in this village, very impressive.
And... that's me, 99% caught up with photos. I have a few more I'd like to post, but the site's being slow now. So there may be a small Part 2 to this model village post. For now - I'm planning to get cracking on my wordcount for the day. This novel won't write itself, etc.
