busy!

It's been a busy few weeks in the Old Schoolhouse. Or rather not IN the Old Schoolhouse. We've been out and about rather a lot!

First saw a weekend where we headed off to the Museum Of Lincolnshire life to meet up with some other Home Educators and have a look round the Meccano exhibition. There was some hands on meccano to play with and Lemmy and Oz trundled off to build a police helicopter crane. I'm not sure which of the two was responsible for which element of that combination! It was good fun, and Lemmy asked if he could have the TinTin plane to make. So that's gone on the list of 'things to buy'.

Then we had a return to Lincoln because there was free entry to the castle, where we saw demonstrations of archery and old firearms. The latter was very good at demonstrating how unreliable the firearms were! We saw birds of prey, and a troup of medieval musicians and of course a walk round the old prison.
We headed over to the Cathedral, which prompted our first real talk about God. Lemmy is still of the opinion that God is some kind of magician - like Merlin. But we had a chat about different people holding different religious beliefs.
A trip to the Bishops Palace saw Lemmy wandering off with Grandad so I'm not entirely sure what he learnt at that point! But he has a thing about Henry the VIII at the moment so was interested to learnt that he stayed there once.
He bought a knights outfit in the shop, so we have a chat about the Crusades coming up at some point in the future!
Then we headed over to the Museum Of Lincolnshire life again, where they were having a WWI weekend with demonstrations of field guns being erected and the various developments in gas masks, and a look at guns.
As we left he picked a book up in the shop which was all about WWII, an era which he is very keen on learning more about.

This weekend gone we have spent with friends in Ely, and Lemmy was very excited about this as of course the Cromwell house is there and the English Civil War is really his 'thing' at the moment. We didn't go to the house as we were pushed for time but a future visit is on the cards to explore it properly.
On the Sunday we went into Cambridge and had a quick walk round and some lunch before heading off to watch the Kid Carpet and the Noisy Animals show. We saw the songs from this performed at Shambala last year (us grown ups are fans of Kid Carpets previous output aimed at the more mature fan - mature in age, not mentality!). Seeing the show in it's full form with all the visuals was great! Kid (he's called Kid Carpet because he's 'kiddish' was the explanation Lemmy offered to our 8 year old companion) is really great at engaging this young audience. Lemmy was enthralled, and noisily joining in. He was up and out of his seat like a flash when the dance competition was announced as the climax and to the joy of our little group he won!! He's still on a high about this now!

Next weekend is going to be a more sedate affair. We have no plans - so hope for good weather and the chance to get in the garden and plant more seeds. Lemmy is becoming more interested and knowledgable about growing fruit and veg and as he knows I volunteer for an organic gardening charity he's keen to learn more about organic gardening methods!