At the beginning of August Timmy, Luke, Annie-Joy & I went to
Norton Priory with the Mansell family. I was very pleased with myself for managing to plan a route to the priory & drive myself & three kids there whilst navigating! I didn't really enjoy driving over Runcorn Bridge but it was ok! The priory is lovely place to visit- plenty for everyone to do in the museum, beautiful gardens to explore & ruins of the old priory itself to wander through. (Find out more
here). The children are in the wine cellar of the undercroft in this photo. I have a similar photo of Jordan aged 3 & me in this same spot! (Jordan wasn't with us on this trip as he was having a little holiday with Grandma & Grandad!)
The day we visited we got in the priory for free as there were art activities going on jointly run by Norton Priory & the BBC. The boys helped to make a papier mache tree. It was VERY messy & the flour paste got everywhere!! It was good fun though.
Luke kept getting distracted by the pictures in the TV Times of his favourite tv characters!
Timmy enjoyed painting a butterfly transparency to hang in a window.
After all that creativity we went for a walk in the Walled Garden.
The boys posed on this sculpture & enjoyed pulling funny faces....
...while the girls watched quietly from a distance!
The geese sculptures didn't know what had happened when Timmy & Luke jumped on them! And by the looks of things, neither did Timmy!! What a face!!
Annie-Joy had to have a turn too, of course!
We all loved these chicken wire hare sculptures. They remind me of the Minotor & Hare sculptures that were in Cheltenham town centre when I was a student there.
Then to finish off the trip Timmy, Luke & Annie went to market to market to buy a fat pig or two & came home again, home again jiggity jig! :o)
At the beginning of August Timmy, Luke, Annie-Joy & I went to Norton Priory with the Mansell family. I was very pleased with myself for managing to plan a route to the priory & drive myself & three kids there whilst navigating! I didn't really enjoy driving over Runcorn Bridge but it was ok! The priory is lovely place to visit- plenty for everyone to do in the museum, beautiful gardens to explore & ruins of the old priory itself to wander through. (Find out more here). The children are in the wine cellar of the undercroft in this photo. I have a similar photo of Jordan aged 3 & me in this same spot! (Jordan wasn't with us on this trip as he was having a little holiday with Grandma & Grandad!)
The day we visited we got in the priory for free as there were art activities going on jointly run by Norton Priory & the BBC. The boys helped to make a papier mache tree. It was VERY messy & the flour paste got everywhere!! It was good fun though.
Luke kept getting distracted by the pictures in the TV Times of his favourite tv characters!
Timmy enjoyed painting a butterfly transparency to hang in a window.
After all that creativity we went for a walk in the Walled Garden.
The boys posed on this sculpture & enjoyed pulling funny faces....
...while the girls watched quietly from a distance!
The geese sculptures didn't know what had happened when Timmy & Luke jumped on them! And by the looks of things, neither did Timmy!! What a face!!
Annie-Joy had to have a turn too, of course!
We all loved these chicken wire hare sculptures. They remind me of the Minotor & Hare sculptures that were in Cheltenham town centre when I was a student there.
Then to finish off the trip Timmy, Luke & Annie went to market to market to buy a fat pig or two & came home again, home again jiggity jig! :o)
4 comments:
It looks a lovely place. Your pics always turn out well- I remember the ones you took before being very attractive! The activities looked fun!
Mum xxxx
PS I wouldn't fancy the 'Acorn Bridge' either!
Thankyou! :o)
Great fun! Back up this Blog! It's a brilliant Daviestribe history that shouldn't be lost! I love it!
And I love you too! Hugs a-plenty all round!
DaddyO
xxxxxx
ooh what a fab looking place!!! I would love to go there! The papier mache tree reminds me of a tree my friend and I made in A level art at school all those years ago! We also made Mod Roc imitation bark pieces too! (goodness knows why!! There were much more interesting projects we could have done but for some reason we chose to do trees and bark!!!) xxx
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