9.30 pm, 18th December

Watching Wartime Farm while making 'modern art' transfer scenes and reading Michelle Paver.

Now that the madness of term-time has passed...

...the kids are rediscovering the lounge for activities other than tv and IGCSE homework.

Tv off, heater on, dog snoring, and ds2 starts a Michelle Paver book from the Ancient Chronicles series. It's only 2 or 3 years since he was given the books (!)

Looking forward to more quiet days...

The Festival of History

The Festival of History, at Kelmarsh Hall, near Kettering. Last weekend.

Weather, very British.


and totally appropriate for the First World War trench experience

Guns for the boys

More guns

Interspersed with WWI horses

And a lot of water

Archery

Michael Morpurgo

(yes, ok, so we did sneak round the back of the marquee because all the tickets for his talk had gone even though we queued, and we did get told off by some jobsworthy English Heritage woman for standing outside the marquee and looking in (!), but I did stand my ground (since when is it a crime to stand outside a marquee?) and we did see Michael Morpurgo and it was very much worth an English Heritage bollocking to do so and I would highly recommend that anyone else does the same)

More guns

Horse, man and gun.

More horses, more men, more guns.

Oh look! Is that a gun over there?

Red flag. And gun.

Yeah, you get the idea...

Michelle Paver talking about the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness and her encounter with a bear(note: no guns)

Think I've seen this one before. I recognise the gun.