Hello half term

Half term is almost here, which means....... MORE EXPLORING!!

The plan is.....

Winchester on Saturday- for King Arthur's round table and Jane Austen's house

Oxford on Monday- for the University and beautiful old English buildings 

Bristol on Wednesday- for it's quirky shops and bustling streets 

Southampton on Friday- for the Titanic Museum and old Tudor house

& 

Windsor and Eton the following weekend- to check out another one of the Queens cribs and do some stealthy stalking.....

With only 6 weeks left until summer holidays I am trying to pack as much as I can into the next few weeks! Every weekend is going to see me in a new part of England #noregrets

My week started off with one of the girls asking me how old I am, I replied by asking how old she thought I was, hmmm I dug myself a hole there as she replied 61.

Self confidence at an all time low.

But I managed to pick my sobbing crumpled up self off the pavement.... Semi restored

Until today, when I received a portrait from one of the girls of Miss Cragg (that's me), not sure what's going on with my mirror but it looks like I need to get myself a new one..... It's clearly playing tricks on me. Is my neck really that long..... 

This week has been a blast

Wednesday saw me spending the day out and about in Southsea with the year 1/2's 

A visit to a mini museum, which included a massive plastic dinosaur (arm bandage included), an abundance of stuffed animals..... Dead little squirrels, foxes, badgers and rabbits with their beady little eyes popping out was slightly disturbing for the girls. But educational, as was the butterfly house, with it's 3 butterflies. Bit tricky explaining why the butterfly half out of its cocoon doesn't seem to be moving..... I think it's already seen a different kind of light..... We didn't want to crush the girls souls so we just said it was sleeping.The rest of the day involved a picnic lunch on the grass in the sunshine, some spontaneous rolley polleys down the hill (all of the girls were covered in bird poo or some kind of other poo....) but they were loving life as per usual. Beach art was next on the list, making pictures out of rocks, seaweed and bits of dead crab. I caught one of the girls stuffing some seaweed into her backpack and made her promise me to take it out when she got home, her poor mother will be searching for the smell for months. 

Some beans, stuck in the mud, splat and a cheeky choc ice later (choc wedge) marked the end of our adventure and we headed back to school with a spring in out step..... Well I did, the girls complained that their legs were almost falling off. 

I guess that's what happens when you go from here to there and anywhere in a sports car. 

Today the 5/6's invited me to the law courts to watch them role play a very important case involving a motorist hitting a cyclist..... The cyclist was found GUILTY. It was all very dramatic, wigs and gowns included, but no crying. Hallelujah! 

The Moscow Circus is in town and a date night at Jamie's Italian is penciled in the diary

& that's another week down of living the English life :)