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had a good week at Pontings most of the acts wereIrish and the Spirit of Ireland was brilliant, if it comes near you do try and see it,
I did my usual of sitting with my crafts and sold £14 of the jewellery I was making for St Elizabeth Hospice, still got a fair bit for the shop will take in on Thursday, it is mostly bits people have brought in like odd earings and broken bits that I recycled, and some I just redesigned as they had not sold, so was really pleased that some sold there. I also did a bit more of the quilt ( wish I never started that one lol) and finally finished the table cloth, don't have time to do much like that at home. also been playing with the air dry moidelling stuff, and am trying it out on hairslides etc, let you know if it works

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had a good day out, quite cold and St Georges wasn't open ( mean clergy) what to visit some more dragons another day, most of these are only there for the festival

had a nice day out in wymondham norfolk inspite of the cold, nice meal out oin the way home, wymondham is full of lovely old houses and has some really nice walks

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the kids have always enjoyed this walk, very popular with the London ramberlers, the animals are very friendly, nice day out. the dinosaurs are interesting we have learned a lot more about them since these were made.

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was a little disapointed in that it was mainly just bits of tatty parchment, with little extra information, very good if one is new to it, much more in the Egyptian rooms, spend the morning there and walked too far, (only draw back of my magic shoes) so suffered the next day, but have always loved the Brtitish Museum
am seriously thinking about joining the club along with one of the grands ( you get to hands on some stuff, and can sleep over ). On the only touch table I found manned they had some beautifully worked stone for tools, one in a crystal stone was all glitery and must have been quite a status symbol, they didn't look like they would have been  part of a handled tool,  ( no grooves in the place where it would have been attached to the wood, and he also had a grinding stone/ nut opener, things like that 'talk' to me when I hold them.
took a few pics
 £12  accompanied kids free

came across  a picture the other day of the street traders in london, I remember the straw chair man, who patiently showed me how to weave the straws to make a seat on an old stool I had, we also had a man who used his bike pedals to turn a stone that sharpened knives and sissors, the rag man ofcourse with his lovely gipsy horse, like a tiny shire and the organ man that came and played while we danced in the street. we had a coal yard nearby and I would sometimes go and help groom the horses at the end of their day, and get a ride back to the stable as a reward, and while the dairy wouldn't let me in with the horses, I did 'drive 'our milkmans horse, he wouldn't ofcourse go anywhere except where he normally went off by himself to meet the milkman further along his round, he left when the horses went, as he got fed up with having to keep going back for the van, that wouldn't learn to go to the next point like the horse did. I also got a ride on the police horse that led the cornation procession, and  helped the zoo keepers feed the animals ( think I got nipped by everything  rodent like, over the years . The other animals didn't nip )..the other horses were the army horses and we used to see who could sneak past the guard to take carrot to the horses, went past it last summer and they now have ornate gates, no sneaking past them.   Think my deep love of ancient history was due to a guard at the museum, who took me down to the store, where I handled things that were so old it was past my understanding at the time how old they were, we had some medieval jewellery, but the museum stuff was from the dawn of time, and quite awesome.
kids miss so much these days, it would be more the the men's job worth to allow a child to do it today, we arn't even allowed to help with the harvest any more.

was there a few years ago, a cat takes you through the history of weymouth, very interesting displays, you start in the office, then follow the cat through time

the cotton runs





my explorer was very interested in this museum and it took us nearly all day to get round it, part of a very nice caravan holiday down there, these were the only photos that came out unfortunately.

may have put this somewhere else, but the health blog seems a good place to at least repeat it.
I have walking pain due to arthritus in the leg joints, and seem to have found a  smart solution.

normally I can only walk a few yards before it gets difficult,  but noticed that my country and western boots, made a difference, which are a bit facy for every day use, but you can get what they call practice line dancing shoes, that have the western boot special shock absorbant heel and are a smart lace up that goes with pretty well everything ( you need a size larger like a boot) which allows me to walk about for several hours before it gets too uncomfortable.
you only seem to be able to get them on the net, type in western boot and there are several British firms that do them

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this sounds a bit morbid, but is a fasenating study of bereavement. It has a interesting history and did have it's own railway to bring coffin and mourners out from London,  so there are no old graves, but  does support a victoria cross grave.  It is set out in communities, like little village cemtries and family plots like little gardens of rest, it cover many religions, each using thier own  customs.
There is also a whole portion set aside for war graves, the USA  site ofcourse being the biggest complete with flying flag but several counries  are represented.

They do themed walks round the site, based on the flora and fauna found on the site ( appointment needed)
It was quite cold and rainey the day we went and the  local pub was really welcome and the meal pretty good before the walk back to the station
would like to go on a better day in the summer and visit the wilder areas where the flora and fauna are.

second try  at photos of the isle of wight
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this link seems to work  several holidays here, personal and holiday explorers,
really is a lovly island to visit at any time of the year . nice hotels, assorted camps good transport buses  steam railway and the 1950's london tube trains that run from the ferry to ventnor link together to make  places easy to get at, there are also some really lovely walks, beaches and gardens