Who’s Normal Anyway?

We didn’t do anything interesting at all on Thursday or Friday so I had nothing to blog about. Yesterday M went to cricket practice, which is a new thing that he started last week. He paid £5 to become a junior member of the local cricket club and they are running a 90 min practice session at no extra cost every Saturday morning until mid July. The rest of us sat in the car and watched, then A went for a bit of a walk round town with L and came back for the end. For the rest of the day I made courgette and aubergine lasagne and garlic bread and M got very very excited about friends coming down to visit and he was looking out of the window for them every 5 minutes, well before they could possibly be here.

So we fed and watered them, M did a house tour and the grown ups had a tour of the garden. M and the girls went out to the playpark to run off some surplus energy and then they left us to go back to the campsite.

Today we all went to the Fairy Fair and it was excellent. I can hardly believe how many people were there it was just so busy! Lots of little girls in fairy costumes, even some adults dressed up, very green and organic without being wierd! We arrived about 10.30am and queued to get into the car park then joined a massive queue to actually get in. Then there was another queue to sign up for workshops throughout the day but by the time we got to the front of the queue at 11.15 everything was sold out that M and co had wanted to do, so we settled for the last few places in the shield making workshop at 4pm.

There were lots of tents and stalls, people in costumes, storytellers, woodland walks - loads to look at and join in with. I especially liked the trolls under the bridge.

We looked around all the stalls in the morning and had coffee and fairy cakes. I stopped to admire some baby carriers at one stall and A was enthusiastic about them (!) so I took my chance while it was there and bought a wrap LOL. Well, you can’t have too many pretty carriers.

We bought tickets for the float race on the river and jostled on the river bank to watch the race and the antics of the trolls and river creatures who were helping them along.

After that we walked back through the woods and went into the performance tent for a sit down out of the wind.

We watched a puppet show about “The King who had donkey’s ears” which was very inventive with the props and quite amusing for 45 mins. Then there was time for another cuppa before the older 3 children needed to be at their workshop. They made shields from sticks, recycled bottle caps, bits of wool and other oddments and all chose a badger symbol for the centre of their shields.

We’ve just got home and we’re waiting for the pizzas to be cooked now!