Showing posts with label aeroplanes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aeroplanes. Show all posts

Saturday, 27 July 2013

Spontaneity

We woke this morning and Dan decided that he fancied going to RAF Cosford to see the planes for the day. After picking up some goodies for tea from our local Farmers Market, we made the 65 mile trip to the museum near Telford. 



Our tummies were telling us that it was nearly lunch time. Dan wanted to eat up and head home, but I suggested getting lunch on the way home, via a National Trust property, so that our day wasn't wasted. We drove up some beautiful, yet very narrow country lanes to Moseley Old Hall, a beautiful 16th century farmhouse which was used to hide King Charles II when he fled Oliver Cromwell after the Battle of Worcester.



We enjoyed a sweet little picnic in the orchard surrounded by lavender, bumble bees and butterflies. It was such a peaceful way to spend the afternoon. We walked around the beautiful gardens and woodland and learned so much inside the house. The kitchen was fully stocked as they had just provided a banquet in full 17th Century style for its historians who were in full get up for the day. We chatted with a magistrate and a gentleman about coins and books for a good while.





Louie and I had a go in the stocks! 

And to end a perfect day, Louie won a competition in the shop, being the first to find a miniature Charles II in his little house, and I was treated to this beautiful book!
Yet another, perfect day.

Sunday, 17 March 2013

Weekending

Saturday

 



A trip to Manchester's Science and Industry museum. Our little Bee has a real thirst for knowledge at the moment. Wanting to to know how things work and why. We saw all sorts, from Aeroplanes to ancient computers to roman baths. An exhausting day with the two boys.

 Rufford Old Hall




Whilst the big men went to the highly anticipated football derby, we opted for a relaxing day out to Rufford. A 14th Century country house alongside the Leeds - Liverpool Canal. A young Shakespeare performed his plays in the stunning Great Hall of this magnificent house, which was enough to spark the attention of our little Bee.

Sunday, 9 September 2012

The Victory Show


Today we visited the Victory Show, a World War Two reenactment show at a village near to our home. I planned to take the boys earlier in the year, after we missed the show last year due to being on our Autumn holiday. 

After a bad start (leaving the bag at home and having to queue in the traffic twice!) we finally got in and it was scorching! We wandered around the camps, stalls and aeroplanes and both of my Bees were thoroughly pleased! 






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