Penguins, a Castle, Redbeard and St George
Couldn’t summon enthusiasm and time for blogging earlier in the week, but here’s a quick summary.
Thursday
We were up early and out of the house by 8am to get into the centre of Norwich for a schools’ showing of March of the Penguins at 10am. We had an introductory talk by Malcolm Penny who made Survival documentaries in Antarctica. He told us about filming in the harsh conditions before we watched the film. I saw the first 20 mins and then L started fussing so I took him out to the loo but he fussed there too so we went back in. He was intent on trying to grab M and then got louder and louder so I took him out again into the lobby in the hopes we could go back in if he settled down or fed off for a nap - but no chance of that. M was upset and said he thought I’d left him there and gone off for lunch. Dunno where he gets these ideas! I think he enjoyed the film though it sounded a bit traumatic in places. When the film finished we went to Norwich Castle and got some lunch and then had a brief look around at everything. We must go back for a more detailed look sometime soon because there is loads there to see. We called in the library where M was pleased to find the first Asterix book and then we came home. A was supposed to be in Scotland at a meeting but as we arrived back so did he - had a mix up over plane tickets.
Friday
We had a day at home and M made a poster about the Queen and the royal family and palaces. I can’t remember what else we did but I think we had a few differences of opinion about how much time M could spend on the computer. He was coming down with a cold and he woke in the evening burning hot and crying, so A slept in with him and had a restless night.
Saturday
M woke up feeling better thank goodness because we planned to go to the East Anglia Cache meet up in Ely. The weather was gorgeous for it and we met lots of fellow geocachers outside the Maltings pub. We did an event cache hunting down Captain Redbeard’s treasure and had some lunch at the Maltings. Afterwards we went hunting down clues for another cache around Ely centre but we’ll have to finish it off another day because we ran out of time and energy.
Today L and I also have horrible colds. We went to church this morning and then this afternoon A went out to a Scout St George’s Day parade thing and I took L and M to Oxburgh Hall for their Knights, Damsels and Dragons day. M did a quiz about armour around the orchard and then made a dragon mask. We went around the house and M did a children’s trail about dragons. He wasn’t that interested in the house (I wasn’t ’specially fascinated either, must be said) and an old biddy visitor had a go at him for pointing at details in some wooden panelling, telling him he shouldn’t touch. Grrr…. There was a priest hole M was really interested in but I said there was no way I was going to view it with L on my front and a bag on my back - I was too wide to manoeuver. I was impressed he queued up by himself and got chatting to the guide all about the hole and how big it was and all sorts.
Tomorrow A is being picked up at 5.30am to go to Scotland and he’s not back til Wednesday, then Thursday and Friday he’s off again. I’m feeling stressed about the week ahead already. I have too many things to do and end up not settling to do anything so I get no farther on.
