I just can’t stop – look here, you’ll feel the same 🙂 It’s no Wonderpets granted, but for it’s day it was bloody good kids tv 😆
It rained today, that miserable grey drizzly rain that’s barely even qualified to be called rain but gets you all wet anyway. But never mind that, we were off to Drusillas! 🙂 Packed a picnic and Ady took us over there before heading off to do some stores in that direction. We met Ros and co at the entrance along with about 3000 school children. We’ve rejoined for the year after a year off so the children were really excited :). We hurried through the first bit getting buffeted about by children in pacamacs and decided to have a quick look round the farm bit and get our obligatory egg picture before going to the playpark before the school children got there. The children played (somehow they managed it today, unlike yesterday at the park, thankfully 🙂 ) while Ros and I sat and drank tea, Ros cross stitched and we chatted, it’d been way too long. We eventually moved indoors into the soft play area, had to buy socks for D&S due to a very over zealous woman in charge of the area who kept putting annoucements over her tannoy about how to play – then we sat while all the school trip adults called their charges over it too – very funny 🙂 We briefly lost Tarly – I’d not seen her for ages and then realised her shoes were missing so she must have gone back outside. Spent about five minutes looking for her before finding her holding court in a playhouse with a small group of other little kids. She was quite indignant at being pulled away saying ‘but I was making new friends Mummy!’ so we all went back inside again. Adam and Davies, and eventually the others wandered away again but Scarlett spent ages sitting on the floor looking through a Drusillas book and ticking boxes, writing her name and telling us which bits said ‘yes’ and ‘no’. She’d got a postcard and note from Alex in the post this morning and brought that along with her in her little bag so she also wrote ‘Scarlett’ on the back of the postcard too. 🙂
Ros and co had to leave before us due to their very busy schedule 😉 so we went back into the zoo part and had a proper walk round looking at the animals and talking about various things we saw, looking at the lift the flap bits around the zoo about what groups of different animals are called – like a flamboyance of flamingos, a parliament of owls and so on. We finished up with an ice cream and a ride round on the train which has been rebranded as a Thomas train with various Thomas landmarks around the track. I could probably tolerate that if they didn’t pipe the Thomas song into the train on a loop all the way round, which is still echoing in my head now 🙁 I hate Thomas, round Tidmouth sheds and far away. I couldn’t get any signal in Drusillas, I never can so we walked to the exit to ring Ady and find out how far away he was and he had just pulled up in the car park five minutes previously. 🙂
We popped into Asda on the way, Ady’s found some iron on transfers for t shirts you print yourself so has been printing off things onto them and wanted some plain t shirts for the children to iron them on to, he’s done one for me too, but I’ll wait until I am wearing it to take a photo to blog it. 🙂 Home for the kids’ tea, some chicken free ranging and a quiet evening. I’m working all day tomorrow with Julie here in the morning and Dad here in the afternoon so I’m hoping for a sunny day to keep all the children outside instead of indoors trashing the place for the day. Oh and also hoping that Ady gets home before me to tidy it all up too ;). And then, hurrah, it’ll be the weekend!
I used to love the littlest hobo too. And I’ve given up going to Crealy for the summer, the last time was a couple of weeks ago when it was simply packed with school trips, and even too many families on holiday, so I’ve told Joe I’m not going again until September.
Look forward to seeing the t-shirts 🙂
Comment by Sarah — 13 July 2007 @ 5:34 am