Help! I have heard so much secret 7 and famous 5 over the last few days that I am in danger of starting to speak like them. We have spent a lot of time in the car the last few days and the story cds of choice (sam's not mine!) have been "three cheers for the secret 7" and "the 5 on billycock hill". The stories themselves are good but it is the language that drives me mad. They are so rude to people they don't like and don't hesitate to tell people to "shut up" and other such friendly phrases. I appreciate that this is a lot better than some of the things that children come out with these days but it is still not very nice. Sam loves the stories because the adventures are so exciting but even he agrees that the secret 7 are very mean to one of the character's little sister. Actually come to think of it there is a lot of rudeness in Enid Blyton's books, wonder why?
Anyway, despite missing M very much sam and I have had a nice couple of days-as evidenced by the photos. After droping M off at coventry airfield (don't think it is big enough to be called an airport) we visited Kenilworth Castle and then an air museum. I think sam enjoyed both equally but the castle was much more my thing. Sam took great delight in taking lots of photos-most of which turned out really well. He is getting to be quite a good photographer.
Monday was the big day...Legoland!! Both traffic and weather were kind to us (at least for most of the day) and we managed to spend nearly the whole day there. My friend Melanie and her youngest D (my goddaughter) met us and it was lovely to be able to spend time with them. Sam loved legoland and despite going on most of the rides, the thing he liked most was miniland. He loved following the trains, boats and cars as they moved round the various countries. I think that he could have easily spent most of the day in that part of the park. We did all the rides that he wanted to do, with minimum fuss. The lines were very short so we were able to get lots done. He had to visit each gift shop before deciding to part with his hard earned cash but in the end decided that three little things were better than one big thing-quite sensible if you ask me. The drive home seemed to take forever but was brigtened up by seeing a double rainbow.
Today we went to visit my friend Louisa and her family and sam had a glorious day playing with dogs and stomping around the countryside. It was a lovely visit and the weather was perfect for spending most of the day out of doors. We went sloe and blackberry picking so will be spending tomorrow making sloe gin and blackberry crumble. Sam had a ball playing with panda and magic the dogs and I am not sure who was more exhausted when we left him or them! We have spent this evening becomming totally addicted to the computer game Zoo Tycoon. We picked it up for 99p at sainsburys over the weekend and gave it a trial run tonight. What a fun game! Who knew that running a zoo could be so much fun and so educational! Not only did we have to learn about animals and there habitats but we also had to think about the finance of running our zoo-which we weren't too good at. When we ended the game we were in debt-but the zoo was fantastic.
A quiet day tomorrow I think and then off to coventry in the evening to pick up M.
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Lovely photos. The Zoo Tycoon sounds fun and is right up our street at the moment with K interested in Sim City and B doing Lego Loco. Will look our for it when I do a shop on Friday. Elle
I read SS to my son and he's getting sick of me referring to the SS members as Jelous Jack, Peter the Meanine and Barbara and Pam as Wet Lettuces! And of course Super Susie! I often make up bits so that the story goes more in Susie's favour, but when I was reading "Good Old Secret Seven" last night Enid Blyton gave poor susie a break saying about susie "secretly they [the boys] felt that she might be a bit too clever for them"!! hee hee
Fiona M
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