Time to finish the posting for the Easter term break. Last day on our journey to Charmouth we went to Maiden Castle, the largest intact hill fort in Britain, and boy is it impressive - they say about 50 football pitches inside. Really quite an impressive structure - kids particularly enjoyed rolling down the sides!! We drove back home uneventfully and had a relaxed weekend.
M went to see Bach's St Matthew's Passion at Kings Chapel and it was truly fabulous - 3.5 hours long and a very numb posterior by the end of it. Incredible performance though. Next year try for a better seat. Took the kids to London to the Natural History Museum, which they loved, it was INCREDIBLY crowded. In fact the calmest and least crowded place was the basement lunch room reserved for kids!! We didnt get to the dinosaurs part cos the line to get in to the animated dinosaurs was 1 hour long!!!!! Thankfully we were able to convince the kids that there are other things worth seeing. They were blown away by seeing the fossils of ichythasaurs collected from Charmouth and Lyme Regis where they had just been. Little M has adopted Mary Anning as a sort of heroine at the moment - way cool. She has got a whole heap of fossil and natural history books and pours over them - and makes me read her descriptions of types of rocks for her bedtime story. This is very boring for mother, but she thinks its fascinating. Obviously not a fairy story kid anymore, though has seen the Narnia video with a friend and thinks its the best ever. They started back at school today, which both were happy about, so onwards to the next break at the end of May. And the weather is finally improving so things are looking up!!
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