On Friday we made it to Framlingham for a Time Travellers event. Last year we started our passports at Festival of History and completed them at Framlingham, and the kids got English Heritage bags that lasted a few weeks and then fell apart 🙁 This year although we were given the passports neither of them wanted to do the kids’ events that would have given them stickers at Festival of History – it isn’t desperately well organised in that you end up doing quite a lot of standing around waiting for your turn, and that’s something neither of mine enjoy. Then when I looked on the website it appeared that most of the events were repeats of last years, so we didn’t bother to plan any in.
Fortunately, a not very local set of friends decided they did fancy an event and we arranged to meet up there. Fortunately, because otherwise we’d have missed Heuristics, and that would have been a shame.
They’ve been at Festival of History each time I think, and we’ve spent a differing amount of time around them, but enough for me to know that we were in for a treat. Sadly we arrived at the end of the inventions talk, which Small would have enjoyed, but we were in time to build a castle, add crenellations and then queue up to knock it down with something that wasn’t a trebuchet but is like it. (Hm. Guess my brain just isn’t up to retaining that level of information.)
After the castle destroying I took Big, Small and smallest up on the walls (baby on my back) along with an extra who belongs to our friends. Part way round my thigh muscle went into spasm, which made for an interesting experience. I’m just not used to steps – we live in a bungalow now, and there are no slopes around here either. Leg muscles only do flat!
And after the wall walk there was a talk on medicine. Which was funny, seriously funny. I thought Small was going to cry laughing, he had a fab time of it, and heckled very well throughout, which was encouraged 🙂 If you get the chance to see Heuristics at any point, I really recommend it, and not just for the education for the kids!
All the kids were having a lovely time together, and Katy and I were enjoying time to chat so once the show was over we wandered around the moat walk for a while. The weather was surprisingly kind, given the constantly threatening grey clouds and although it was a long day, it was very worthwhile. So thanks to Katy for providing the motivation to make it out, really really enjoyed it.
And I’ll come back with photos tomorrow, for some reason the network is saying they are going to take 16 minutes to reach this machine, and I want to go to bed!
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