The end of the summer

Once we had got back from France, the kids weren't ready to sleep in beds. So they decided that they were now living in the garden in a tent - Swallows and Amazon's style. They went to the shops to buy their food and then cooked it on an open fire. There was lots of corned beef involved, but they did cater 3 meals a day for several days and make one bar of chocolate last a week. Their choice breakfast - malt loaf and apples!

We made some ginger beer to accompany their meals, but it turned out rather weird so they took it around to friends' to share.

On a rather chilly and wet day we went to watch the York Soapbox Race;

 

and then warmed up with lunch in the City Screen.

We went on our first family trip to the cinema and discovered that Thea isn't quite ready for the full disney-pixar experience on the big screen yet.

The kids spent all day, everyday making the most of all the screen-allowances at multiple friends' houses, and when they ran out, started on board games. This game of risk continued over several days!

Thea and F practised their face painting skills:

And when friends weren't available, we had to resort to science. We excavated fossils from sandstone;

and experimented with liquids of different densities.